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TIL the opposite of jealousy is compersion

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8adRb TIL that Ben-Hur, the book whose movie adaptation won a record 11 Oscars, was written by a Civil War general. He also ordered the arrest of Billy the Kid.
w0jE TIL that after the Wachowskis pitched the idea of The Matrix to Warner Bros and asked for an $80mil budget, WB said no and gave them $10mil. The Wachowskis spent the $10mil on the opening scene of the film, which they showed WB who were so impressed that they ended up giving them the entire $80mil
D1pkv TIL that Neil Armstrong took souvenirs to the Moon. Specifically, he carried cloth and pieces of propeller from the original Wright Flyer, which Wilbur and Orville flew at Kitty Hawk. Armstrong specifically requested to take the items, and they were counted as his personal belongings.
JXJ1 TIL that until 11,000 years ago milk was toxic to humans, that the only way we could consume it was lowering the lactose levels by turning it into cheese, that today only one third of adults are lactose tolerant, and that the closer you get to the equator the lower the tolerance level is.
OoJQg TIL that During the early Middle Ages, almost every scholar thought the Earth was round, not flat. The myth that they thought earth is flat back, picked up steam in the 1800s, right around the same time the idea of evolution was rising in prominence — and religious and scientific interests clashed.