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TIL the renowned architect Buckminster Fuller experienced an epiphany around age 32 where he felt himself suspended several feet above the ground in a white sphere of light. A voice said things like, "You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You belong to the universe."

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aRjN TIL that since most people in Japan and China use their phones or computers to phonetically convert the Latin alphabet to type Chinese characters, more people are forgetting how to write some characters by hand. On a Chinese TV show, only 30% of participants could write “toad”, 癞蛤蟆 (Lài há ma).
lGXG TIL that 3 people died while in a flight simulator in a flight safety building, due to a plane crashing into it.
oBGxK TIL that Jeremy Rossman dropped out of MIT in 2011 to start his own college, Make School. The young college offers a project based bachelors degree in computer science that involves working with companies on current, real world problems. Students only pay tuition if they are hired upon graduation.
5Y8wp TIL that Weird Al wrote “The Saga Begins” based on internet spoilers of plot details as he was denied an early screening from LucasFilms of Star Wars Episode 1. He eventually saw the film during a pre-screening and the lyrics he wrote were so accurate, he only made minor changes afterwards.
9Y0JD TIL Produce grows freakishly large in Alaska...like, freakishly large.