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TIL of the "End-of-History Illusion". The perception that you have reached a maximum of personal growth, your potential, and that no new personal maturing will happen in the future.

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6EnL7 TIL that in America, you have to pay a fee of $40 just to have skin to skin contact with your newborn baby.
gMkRL TIL one of the best Go players in the world retired in 2019 after losing 1-4 against the AlphaGo program. He argued that he could never be the top Go player due to the increasing dominance of AI, calling them "an entity that cannot be defeated". He was the only one to win a match against AlphaGo.
mxMEO TIL that Louis Armstrong always wore a Star of David as an homage to a Jewish family that took him in when he was young and gave him his first horn
0drkA TIL there was an entire recent brutal 2 year war in Tigray Region of Ethiopia with more than half a million people killed.
epKMk TIL tetanus bacteria releases toxins that block your nerve receptors (mainly in your spinal cord) and cause muscle spasms.