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TIL that jazz composer Duke Ellington had synesthesia, hearing sounds as colors and seeing colors as sounds

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D1BVg TIL that there's a video from Inside the Columbia, The Space Shuttle right before it broke up. In the video a crew member can be heard as saying "It's getting bright out there, You definitely don't wanna be outside in that"(referring to the super heated plasma outside the window)
pZWQ TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”
GYXoj TIL Hercules/Heracles means "the glory of Hera," Alcides is the hero's real name. He was renamed to mollify Hera when she discovered Zeus had him with another woman.
yQkGa TIL that even mild dehydration — about 1.5% loss in normal water volume — can affect your disposition, energy level, and ability to concentrate.
vmyD TIL because of the height of the Burj Khalifa, you can watch the sunset at the base then grab a quick elevator to the top and watch it all over again.