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TIL there's a Code of Ethics & Integrity for Spiritual Practitioners/Guides

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OGQK4 TIL of the metaphor of the "missing stair", where a problematic person in a community is discretely worked around and warned about, rather than openly addressed
NjOM TIL that during WW2, a bear named Wojtek was officially enlisted into the Polish Army, was trained to salute, and enjoyed drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. He is considered to be a hero of the war, and lives on emblazoned on the emblem of the Polish Army’s 22nd Transport Company.
8app4 TIL that in this picture taken 3 years ago, the combined net worth of these internet/tech executives were worth $200B. Today, just the two people at the front ends (Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos) are combined worth over $220B.
jevn TIL: Under the Third Reich, Aryan mothers who devoted their lives to having children were awarded the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mother’s Cross) and were respected civil servants who were saluted on the streets by Hitler’s Youth.
aXAM TIL that an experimental deployable structure that was installed into the Mir space station that failed to deploy was fixed by being kicked.