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TIL: The positive form of stress is "Eustress", where you feel motivated and focused and perform at your peak

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gMDYA TIL in 2007 a group of traders managed to lose $9 billion by first insuring mortgages that they didn't realise were very risky, and then doubting that a default rate that would make their portfolio unprofitable would be possible.
VBnO4 TIL in early 19th century Spanish overseas expansion and Russian expansion moving south by land from Alaska, met in California. Fort Ross was the southernmost Russian settlement, located in modern day Sonoma County
QxgM TIL that in an alternate DC Universe, Superman’s rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. He is “the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.”
wQNW TIL that American volunteers fighting in other nations armed forces in WW2 lost their citizenship and changed their nationality to Canadian. Congress eventually passed a blanked pardon in 1944.
YJj7 TIL the musicians of the Titanic were legally considered independent contractors rather than crew, so their families received no survivor benefits.