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TIL 10% of people have a mutation that triples their frontal cortex dopamine and makes them feel twice as much pleasure.

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4XrgR TIL Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (famous for his pet moose and metal nose) was kidnapped when he was two years old by his uncle. Despite Tycho's parents knowing about this, and them being nobles of phenomenal influence, they did nothing about this, and let his uncle keep him.
Wk4G9 TIL what about progressive JPEG. A method of compressing and loading images on the Web
ADQ5l TIL that in 1916, a silent comedy film was made about "Coke Ennyday" a detective with a fondness for cocaine made as a parody of Sherlock Holmes. He wears a bandolier carrying syringes filled with the drug and frequently injects himself with massive amounts of cocaine to solve crimes.
rRWx0 TIL despite being worth €37.3 billion the founder of IKEA drove an old Volvo, travelled by economy class, brought a lunch box to work, visited vegetable street markets right before they closed for the day, hoping to get better prices and shopped for clothes at the local flea markets.
7OKO TIL that in the South Park episode “The Ring”, the girl at the Jonas Brothers concert said “my giny tickles” because the show’s producer’s 8yo daughter said that at one of their actual concerts. Also, they really did spray fans with white foam.