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TIL mindfulness teachers get angry too

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b9GE9 TIL Barbie was modeled after a racy gag gift for adults and besides being just lovers, Barbie and Ken are named after a real life brother and sister: the son and daughter of the creator, Ruth Handler.
6ADY TIL that at it’s height the First Persian Empire contained about 44% of the world’s population (about 50 million people), making it the largest empire in history by population percentage
JY7M4 TIL Mars' Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, has such a gradual slope, someone standing at the base would not be able to see the summit because it's beyond the horizon.
MeVoV TIL in 1996, a bill called the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act was passed to protect food vendors from liability for giving unused food to the needy instead of throwing it away for liability reasons.
yVYml TIL about Ol Doinyo Lengai: A unique and active volcano in Tanzania that erupts relatively low temperature natrocarbonatite lava that is black when liquid and dries white.