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TIL learned Kyiv’s mayor is a former heavyweight boxing champion

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yQKYv TIL that psychologically, people prefer avoiding losses than gaining wins; it is better to not lose $5 than to find $5. This is called Loss Aversion. Some studies even have suggested that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, than gains.
6Ekem TIL the band The Vapors were so sure their song “Turning Japanese” would be a huge hit that they intentionally released a different single ahead of it, so they wouldn’t be thought of as a one-hit-wonder.
oRVlr TIL the US government allowed a Hungarian priest to live in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956 to 1971, where he was fully protected from the Red Army who wanted his head. He never left the building once in 15 years.
wLGyP TIL 22 yr old Hilda Clayton, an Army combat photographer and visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company, captured her last photo, and the moment of her death, when a mortar shell exploded in the launch tube during a training exercise with Afghan soldiers
7rOLL TIL of David Buckel, who self-immolated to protest the burning of fossil fuels. He left a note to police apologizing for the mess and built a fire ring so the fire would not spread.