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TIL that flow is the mental state in which a person is fully absorbed in an activity, therefore resulting in a loss of their sense of time and space.

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97l7 TIL: In 1550’s France, Catherine de Medici was so disgusted by women with “thick waists”, she enforced a ban on them from her court - this lead to the widespread use of the corset throughout western civilization for the next 350 years.
BgNyk TIL there’s a White House fountain in memory of two prominent men who shared a home and died together on the Titanic.
MeeMA TIL a lawyer in Toronto fell to his death after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was "unbreakable." The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame, and he fell to his death.
4XmbN TIL that the entire liver of a Polar Bear contains enough vitamin A to kill as many as 52 adult humans
ewPk TIL Python, the programming language, was named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus.