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TIL The Real Difference Between Pleasure and Happiness, Pleasure Is Dopamine and Happiness is Serotonin

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VBQPZ TIL an MIT professor evaluated Nikola Tesla’s “death ray” technology for the FBI. His lab director would later say “over a period of three decades, he would be approached by people of all sorts because he could make megavolt beams of ions and electrons – death rays.”
oBOQW TIL about a drink called the New Jersey Turnpike which calls for the server to ring out the mat found on the floor of a bar into a shot glass and is given to the loser of a bar bet.
bMw9 TIL in Star Wars: Episode III, Ewan McGregorand Hayden Christensen (Obi-Wan & Anakin) practiced their duel so much and so long that as a result, the speed that Obi-Wan & Anakin duel (in the completed film) is at the actual speed it was filmed. The scene is better known as “The Duel on Mustafar”
Lkl10 TIL that because insulin is incredibly expensive despite being the same drug discovered a century ago, there's a movement to create an open source, small-batch manufacturing process
4yO5 TIL that holding recess before lunchtime can increase fruit and vegetable consumption by 54%