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TIL that the Sun has a (very hot) "atmosphere" ~5x bigger than the rest of the Sun

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jPWj TIL the brain releases so much dopamine during orgasms that a brain scan resembles that of someone on heroin.
JMeB TIL that a nomadic man travels the Pacific Northwest in a short bus offering free tea and friendship to anyone who will sit and converse with him in or around his bus.
yQJjl TIL about Bostrom's trilemma. If humans don't kill themselves off and reach the point of being able to simulate human brains, and don't develop universally believed ethics not to, then, statistically speaking, there is a higher chance you are a computer simulation than not.
0G6M TIL Because Sharks have no rib cages, on land their weight can literally crush their own body.
gM50b TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s grave. He even refused to leave after 7 days without food. When a man took him home and fed him, he quickly left and ran back to the grave. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him.