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TIL: There is a Japanese version of John Denver's "Country Road"

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VGg8 TIL Mother Teresa was criticized by the medical press for her view on ‘suffering’, which she enacted at her 'Home for the Dying’ in Calcutta, with her position being “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot… the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
wGOW TIL Lego men have those little holes in the top of their head to allow air to pass through should a child ever get one stuck in their nose.
kOBM1 TIL there is a philosophical concept called the explanatory gap which is used to describe the inability to describe concepts. For instance, it is impossible to describe a color to a blind person and have them accurately understand and visualize that color.