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TIL that a man died after drinking $54,000 worth of methamphetamine, after mistaking it for fruit juice.

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9wlyM TIL the Pāli/Sanskrit word “muditā” - the Buddhist practice of deriving pleasure from the well-being of others. Also known as compersion, sympathetic joy, or vicarious joy, muditā is the opposite of jealousy.
d8XK9 TIL that greasy pizza boxes cannot be recycled; the paper fibers cannot be separated from the oil during the pulping process
eRd6 TIL the Vatican’s archive is a whooping 40 million pages and digitizing it will take an estimated 9 years and 2.8 petabytes
Rw5a TIL that the name Cerberus, Hades’ the three-headed dog that guards the underworld, is derived from the Greek word Kerberos which means spotted. Meaning Hades named is his guard dog “spot”
4Bxg TIL Chris Farley collapsed in an attempt to make a hooker stay with him after a money dispute. She then took pictures of him, stole his watch, and wrote a note saying she’d had a lot of fun. His last words were “Don’t leave me.”