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

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R7XAa TIL that when Nichelle Nichols read for the part of a communications officer in 'Star Trek', she had a copy of Robert Ruark's 'Uhuru' with her. 'Uhuru' is Swahili for 'freedom', and when Gene Roddenberry heard what the word meant, he changed the character's name to 'Uhura'.
P5PG TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was once saved from being hit by a train when a man grabbed him off the tracks. The man was Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth.
1Am8 TIL that the St. Joseph’s student who serves as the school’s Hawk mascot receives a full scholarship as long as he does NOT stop flapping his wings at basketball games. The mascot is estimated to flap his wings 3,500 times during a regulation game.
JYM7j TIL that David Grohl refused to have his band's music on Glee. "The guy who created Glee is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his fcking show," said Grohl. "Fck that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee."
WkgB TIL World War III could have started on 1 July 1945 with a sudden attack against the allied Soviet troops according to a plan ordered by Winston Churchill.It was rejected later considering it was militarily unfeasible.