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TIL: cherophobia (fear of happiness) is an attitude towards happiness in which individuals may deliberately avoid experiences that invoke positive emotions or happiness because they think something bad will happen after.

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6ovw TIL Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge has cheated death twice after changing both MH17 and MH370 flights.
mxOgE TIL cocktails became popular during Prohibition as juices were added to bootleg liquor to disguise the taste of ingredients like dead rat and wood tar
E1neV TIL that originally all peppers used in Tabasco sauce were grown on one 3-mile long, 2.5-mile wide island (Avery Island) in Louisiana. Today, all peppers are still picked by hand, and much of the salt used in Tabasco production comes from the same island, which is also a salt dome.
9YloD TIL there are 43 buildings in NYC which are so massive they have their own zip code.
6EVQ7 TIL Jonah Hill earned just $60,000 for his role in Wolf of Wall Street whilst his co-star Leonardo DiCaprio earned $10,000,000