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TIL that Canadian school children take classes on empathy.

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VMYa0 TIL in Korea, everyone is 1 from the time they are born. And everyone gets a year older on New Year’s day. So your Korean age is always either one or two years older than your Western age.
yvZX TIL the song “Every Breath You Take,” was inspired partially by Orwell’s 1984. Sting himself has expressed dismay that people think it’s about love and commitment, when he was writing about obsession and control.
e7gJ TIL that people are living in the abandoned Mos Eisley set from Star Wars
Xxx6 TIL of Brandolini’s Law AKA the Bullshit asymmetry principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
KOyKw TIL One of the reasons why parachutes are not provided to passengers in a commercial airplane is that an airplane usually flies so high that people jumping out of the airplane would pass out due to lack of breathable oxygen so high up there.