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TIL according to neuroscience recordings of brain waves Matthieu Ricard, a buddhist monk, is literally the happiest person ever tested.

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X0A4X TIL game designer Will Wright (creator of The Sims) held the record for the illegal 'Cannonball Run' race to drive across the US in 1980, driving from New York to California in 33 hours 9 minutes
p8llA TIL that the moment Beck said: "Render my illusion suit." to William, that's where the duo started recording the video of Mysterio framing Spider-Man for the Elementals and Europe/Mexico attacks and exposing his identity before he dies, serving as a last contingency and so it was sent to the Bugle.
YpGav TIL Shanghai was China’s most international and modern city, and the first president Sun Yat Sen lived in a Western-style house in a large self-governing British-run district. Influential Chinese and foreigners lived in the International Settlement and the area still looks Western
ANZ9w TIL in 1856 paleontologist Amanz Gressly discovered a dinosaur named Gresslyosaurus. Years later he suffered a mental break and was institutionalized. When a friend visited him, he found Gressly agonized & hallucinating that he had transformed into the Gresslyosaurus. Gressly died shortly afterwards
D1YeV TIL of Dmitry Argarkov; a Russian man who changed the opening terms of his credit card contract and the bank signed it. His version of the contract contained a 0% interest rate, no fees and no credit limit.