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Today I learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory in psychology often depicted as a pyramid. They are physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization.

BAKL TIL that Walt Disney loved trains since he was a teenager and occasionally donned an engineer’s outfit and drove the Disneyland railroad’s locomotives when they were pulling trains with passengers on board.
0d7Xj TIL In 2012 San Diego's annual Fourth of July fireworks show had a computer glitch, where fireworks programmed for 17 minutes all went off at once (here is one video, there are lots of others; some spectators mad, others ecstatic)
xVnO1 TIL Queens Of The Stone Age were forcibly thrown out of rehab. They were hired to do a "light-hearted, intimate performance" but they opened their set with the drugs filled lyrics of their song Feel good hit of the summer: "Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol c-c-c-c-c-cocaine"
9Y0YD TIL there is a hotel in Auckland next to a giant bungee tower, and the hotel doesn't inform the guests that screaming people will be plummeting past their hotel room windows.
epl76 TIL about St Innocent of the Orthodox Church. A Russian priest, he traveled to Alaska in 1823 to preach to the natives. He learned many languages and translated the Gospel into an Aleutian language and also for the Tlingits. Although he had a church, he mostly traveled by canoe to visit his parish.