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

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4Dg TIL Some Tibetan Monks can increase their body temperature so drastically through meditation, that they can cause wet sheets placed on their body to steam in rooms as low as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, where most people would go into uncrontrollable shivering and perhaps die
p8yGG TIL there's a debate about whether math was invented or discovered. Even though math is used to measure and predict and model, it's debated whether math is inherent to the universe or if math is just something we came up with to describe/measure/predict natural phenomenon.
BrGrk TIL that pure asbestos was used as fake snow in the Wizard of Oz. Here it is raining down on Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion.
N76P6 TIL Bill Murray closed his deal on Meatballs the day before it started shooting and routinely ignored the script. His first day, he improvised his way through a scene where he’s introducing all the counselors-in-training – he showed up, read the pages and threw them away, saying, “I got this.”
Y7aGG TiL the Nirvana song "About a Girl" was written by Kurt Cobain about his then girlfriend Tracy Marander, partially inspired by their fights over Cobain's refusal to do household chores. She didn't know the song was about her until reading a biography on the band.