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TIL the paving rocks of the Champs Élisées come from Saudi Arabia

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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.
kJwDW TIL that after his presidency, George Washington opened a whisky distillery
NPdQ TIL that Mars’ smallest moon, Deimos, has an escape velocity of 5.2M/S, meaning that if you were take a running jump while on it, you will launch off like a slow rocket.
VMGGZ TIL about Guerrilla Grafting. It's the illegal process of turning city maintained sterile fruit trees into fruiting trees by splicing compatible branches onto the sterile trees with branches from fruiting trees.
bPBZ TIL of Cincinnatus, a man who was twice given near-absolute authority over the Roman Republic and who twice gave it up.