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TIL about American diner lingo

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w9Y8 TIL Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy, it blocks the receptors in your brain that make you feel tired.
jxyE TIL Dana Carvey had heart-bypass that was done incorrectly. He was awarded $7.5 million for medical malpractice which he donated entirely to charity.
ADWjd TIL that a modern art critic was asked to review some of Adolf Hitler's paintings without being told who painted them. He judged them to be "quite good" while also stating that the artist's depiction of human figures in the paintings revealed his profound disinterest in people.
Lk5Qp TIL that Dysthanasia (opposite of Euthanasia) refers to the life extension of a person without regards to that person's quality of life.
oB9Z8 TIL Brian Boitano went to the South Park movie alone, had never met Stone or Parker and felt surreal when the theater reacted with appreciative laughter to the question of What Would Brian Boitano Do and the song along with it. It has since become a big part of his life that he seems to embrace it