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TIL Tibetan monks sleep sitting up and even have a special “box” for it (pic in article)

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e0PXD TIL that natural gas, propane, etc don't really have a smell of their own. A chemical called methanethiol is added as a safety measure because it is detectable by the human nose at incredibly small concentrations. It is also partially responsible for the smell of bad breath and flatulence.
OGxER TIL that in 1981, the magazine Locus butchered the title of Gene Wolfe's next novel "The Citadel of the Autarch" and announced that it would be titled "The Castle of the Otter". Wolfe found the mistake so funny he actually published a book titled "The Castle of the Otter" the following year.
neoAr TIL That psychopaths gravitate towards dogs because they are obedient and easy to manipulate. They aren’t sad when they hear of people dying but get upset when dogs die.
1apdd TIL 'Weird Al' Yankovic recorded a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," entitled "Perform This Way," and all of the proceeds from the parody and its music video were donated to the Human Rights Campaign, to support the human rights themes of the original song.
XELdX TIL: Post Malone once tried out for a metal core band called Crown The Empire in 2010 when he was just 15 years old. He was auditioning to be their guitar player but one of his strings broke and he did not make the band. He was in a high school band playing similar music.