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TIL Meditation changes brain structure in just 8 weeks—including an increase in grey matter in the part of the brain associated with learning.

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7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.
P6BZ TIL in responding to why he starred in Jaws: The Revenge, Michael Caine said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
awEA9 TIL about Trimethylamine disorder that makes sufferers smell like rotting fish, rotting eggs, garbage, or urine.
X0MLD TIL that chimps recognize ass better than each other’s faces
dDVxZ TIL Type A personality theory had early association with the smoking industry, who funded researchers in hopes of proving it was personality that lead to heart disease, not tobacco use.