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TIL people who believe their personalities are fixed have a harder time getting over breakups, because they think the breakup reflects something wrong with them

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D1DnJ TIL that the first creatures ever to ride in a hot air balloon were a sheep, a duck, and a chicken
wLW7o TIL: The Grand Canyon was formed not by the Colorado River cutting down into the landscape, but the landscape rising up and the river roughly maintaining its altitude above sea level
XEOw8 TIL the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall and was intended to be world's tallest hotel but these days it is the tallest unoccupied building in the world
gMZoW TIL in 2011, an Australian beer company gave people the option to pay whatever they wanted for a glass of beer from a certain keg. The kegs - called ‘The Karma Keg’ ended up raising at least 35% more than an average keg would make.
R5NQ7 TIL A Catwoman spin-off franchise starring Michelle Pfeiffer was planned after Batman Returns (1992). The project took too long to develop and was eventually scrapped until the early 2000's when the project was revived with Halle Berry.