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TIL Blur’s “Song 2” was meant to be a parody of American grunge.

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wL7JP TIL Miami Planetarium director and PBS Star Jack Horkheimer was born with bronchiectasis, a chronic lung condition. As a young adult, he received so many chest X-rays, he suffered radiation sickness and lost all of his hair.
X0pK8 TIL about the Henokiens, an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more, and whose descendants still operate at management level. It counts 54 members
Owy1 TIL that an ’&’ between two writers for a movie (e.g. “Quentin Tarantino & Woody Allen”) means the writers worked together on the script as a team, while an ‘and’ (“Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen”) means they worked on the same script independently.
p8xKA TIL that vehicle diesel fuel and home heating oil are the same thing. In many markets they are the same product sold out of the same truck.
NkDE TIL that WHO barred the US-based International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) from taking part in ‘WHO activities setting microbiological or chemical standards for food and water’ because 60 per cent of ILSI’s budget comes from ‘hundreds of chemical, food and drug companies’