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TIL that when hooked up to a brain scanner, expert level meditators are in a constant gamma wave brain state. Most people only experience a few moments of gamma brain waves at times of great joy or accomplishment. When meditating on compassion their gamma levels jump 700-800%.

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JEo4 TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, “…the books [started] to show it after a while. ‘Misery’ is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
d8o4r TIL by using a man in the middle, two brothers hacked the French optical telegraph system to gain advance information on the stock market. When they got caught two years later, they walked away as free men because in 1836 there were no laws against hacking
lMD5 TIL that in 1997, four years before being arrested for spying for the KGB, Robert Hanssen was caught using a password cracker on a federal computer. When asked about this, he said that he was simply trying to install a color printer, and so he needed the administrator password. They believed him.
9w4PD TIL That prisoners in Japan who are sentenced to death only find out on the morning of their execution. The prisoner's family and legal representatives, and also the general public, are informed only after the execution has taken place.
781n7 TIL that there is a Goldfish breed so rare that is considered a cryptid. The Meteor Goldfish.