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TIL Lottery Winners and Paralyzed Accident Victims stabilized to similar levels of happiness in a 2004 study analyzing adaptation theory

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P10og Today I learned pizza isn't Italian
8vOa TIL that by coincidience, a married couple were photographed at the same place and time at Disney World 15 years before they met. They didn’t even live in the same country when the pic was taken.
d8N09 TIL all of Uranus’ moons are named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays
R7lL4 TIL several women have suffered miscarriages at work due to the harsh conditions in warehouses owned by XPO, the company that ships for Verizon, Nike, and Disney, among others.
ANx0n TIL at Germany’s Klaasohm festival on Borkum Island, masked men traditionally chased women and beat them with a cow horn, a ritual linked to whaling history. After public outrage and political intervention, the practice was abolished.