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TIL Hamlet has been fully translated and performed in Klingon

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loJr TIL Mozart composed a song called “Lick Me in the Ass”.
jNKDa TIL that the jolly fat person that people generally associate with Buddha is actually a different person - a Buddhist monk named Budai. Buddha himself is not usually depicted as fat.
OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.
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