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TIL that the Buddhist 8-fold path is actually the 9-fold path but the last path is a choice between 2 paths. Kalachakra, the belief that all of time exists within your body, and Samadhi the belief that multiple people can work together under one single solar mind. Buddha was absorbed by both.

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D1w4e TIL actor Jack Gleeson, who played King Joffrey on Game of Thrones, said the scene he enjoyed the most after three seasons on the show, was when Joffrey’s corpse was lying on a plinth in the set with ceremonial stones covering his eyes, because he got to sleep for the whole day.
grvQ4 TIL Almost straight after deployment, Hubble’s optics were found to be flawed. The best solution was to build replacement instruments that fixed the flaw much the same way a pair of glasses correct the vision of a near-sighted person.
R7KQj TIL in 2013 multiple gunmen shot up power transformers in Northern California and cut fiber optic cables, causing over $15 million in damage and outages. The gunmen were never caught.
y8dv TIL that there’s a guy that’s a writer, programmer, war correspondent, photographer, boxer, flying trapeze, ultramarathon runner and broadcaster with fellowships of National Geographic… and he invented the word “podcast”.
N1yQ TIL JFK said “There is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily … even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it … there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without [the press]”