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TIL It’s not the heat that gets ya. It’s the humidity.

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b9V4Q TIL about Acinteyya (Unponderable), a Buddhist philosophical concept that describes certain questions, such as the origins of the cosmos and the concept of 'self', as inherently unsanswerable and beyond human comprehension, and thinking about them would only lead to confusion and suffering.
nWX8d TIL that when gangster Johnny Torrio left for Europe in 1925 and handed over his criminal empire to Al Capone, it was worth $1,169,184,000 a year in today’s money.
1BdW TIL all pandas are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years
l7DVV TIL In 2019, David Dobrik (22) got married to Jason Nash's mother, Lorraine Nash (75). if I understood correctly, it was in order to make her alligable for getting an american citizenship, cause' she didn't have one previously? They stayed married for about a month, after which they divorced.
wmN7 TIL that in 1975, Morgantown, WV (Pop. 30,000) built a personal rapid transit system that comes at the push of a button, skips the stations you don’t want and is still carrying 15,000 people/day today