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TIL that debian (a linux based Operating System - Parent of Ubuntu) has its versions named after toy story characters since its initial release in 1996 (code named Buzz after Buzz Lightyear)

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XYBR TIL there is a German word for the unhappy feeling one gets when comparing the actual state of the world, and all its problems, to one’s idea of how the world should actually be. That word is Weltschmerz or “world pain”.
DdRv TIL In India there is a prison where prisoners can come and go as they please. The prisoners can also hold jobs, one prisoner is even a school teacher.
7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.
4kKJo TIL about "Terminal Lucidity." The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders
jNJ6p TIL that Robin Williams had Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's which [his wife believes] led him to kill himself. His wife says depression had very little to do with it.