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TIL of compersion - the secondhand rush of happiness you feel when seeing somebody else do well.

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KYRA4 TIL that in 1952 US President Harry S Truman refused involvement with the British plan to overthrow the democratically elected PM of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, fearing the precedent of CIA involvement in foreign coups. The coup was carried out a year later after Eisenhower was elected to replace him
9YZGp TIL after rigorously training dogs for space travel, Soviet scientist had a dog named Bobik run away days before their flight. A replacement named ZIB who was an untrained street dog found running around the barracks, was quickly located and made a successful flight.
N76xJ TIL that before the Nintendo GameCube was released, one of the codenames for it were “Dolphin”
vAKx TIL that Godzilla had an adopted son named Minilla who could blow atomic smoke rings
nWgx9 TIL Colloquially, instead of a person from Connecticut is called a Connecticuter, the word Nutmegger is used