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TIL of the concept of Yūgen (幽玄) an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics that doesn't have an English equivalent. It is said to mean "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe ... and the sad beauty of human suffering".

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nejYr TIL that "Robocop" was actually filmed in Dallas. The only real shot of Detroit in the entire movie is the aerial shot in the opening, and that was stock footage.
ZBoY TIL that Slash has had a defibrillator implanted since age 35. Years of drug and alcohol abuse had given him congestive heart failure, and he was given as little as 6 days to live in 2001.
wLDoY TIL Gambler's fallacy, the erroneous belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past it is less likely to happen in the future. In 1913, in a game of roulette, the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, the probability of the sequence is 1 in 66.6 million.
LkpOd TIL that braille is imprinted on on beer cans sold in Japan. This is to ensure that blind people won't confuse a can of beer with a soft drink.
0wj5p TIL that the US destroyed Britain's very first orbital satellite with a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb and kept it secret for 50 years.