Your path may be different to your family, friends, and country. But despite what they may think, it does not mean that you are going in the wrong direction. ☸️
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TIL Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an avg elevation of 4380 m (14k ft) and considered the "Water Tower" of Asia by supplying water to billions of people over thousands of square miles.
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TIL Taoist myths say Lao Tzu was a virgin birth. By the mid-twentieth century, consensus had emerged among Western scholars that the historicity of such a person is doubtful and that the Tao Te Ching is a compilation of Taoist sayings by many hands, with an author being invented afterwards.
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TIL Cristiano Ronaldo does not drink alcohol. He even received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008.
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This post is from 2013 describing 'the future' but look at how prescient it is in 2025!
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TIL of Danionella cerebrum — a tiny fish that is louder than an elephant. This fish blasts sounds at 140 decibels using special drumming muscles. Adults measure only 10–13.5 mm in size and have a brain volume of just 0.6 mm3 which is thus far the smallest known adult vertebrate brain.
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The Colorado River is running low. The picture looks even worse underground: "The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a study based on satellite data."
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TIL California operates the world’s largest engineered water system—drawing snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada, diverting rivers, and pumping water hundreds of miles. Roughly 50 % of available water goes to environment (rivers, wildlife), 40 % to agriculture, and only 10 % to urban/industrial use.
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Do not keep putting off practice, thinking that another location or another time would be more suitable. Nothing is better than the present moment. Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, bring your life to the path.
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TIL Jason Brown, former NFL player, walked away from a 5-year, $37m deal to become a farmer. He maintains a 1,000-acre farm where he grows produce such as sweet potatoes and cucumbers. He donates these crops to local food pantries in need.
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TIL of the saola aka 'the Asian unicorn'. It is one of the world's rarest large mammals and is a forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos. It was first described and photographed in 1993. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, but they died within weeks and months.
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TIL Brad Pitt created a cashmere line with a friend after she had a dream about him telling a stylist he wanted more 'green and softness in his life'. He told her that he actually said that same thing to a stylist around the same time. The two took it as a sign from the Universe to start a company.
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TIL Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Savior of the World'), by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive painting of all-time, was sold for $450m to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The painting hasn’t been on display since 2017 and since late 2020 it has been in storage in Saudi Arabia.
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What is your backup plan in case you don't get into YC S25? Is it a bad idea to submit a few days late just to refine my demo a little more?
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TIL Indo-Mediterranean trade relations have existed since at least ~2000 BCE based on the presence of turmeric, banana, sesame, monkeys & peacocks all originating from India. According to some scholars, the connection between Israel and India was recorded during the reign of King Solomon.
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Emptiness is your ultimate protection against all enemies, both internal and external, and against the suffering that they inflict.
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May 5th, 2025 celebrates the birth, enlightenment, transcendence of Siddhartha Gautama. What a blessing to see and value the Three Jewels, worth more than all the gold in the world. 💎 🙏🏽❤️🩹
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Strive on. We are all in this together. 🤙🏽
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“Don’t worry about making mistakes. By understanding what went wrong, you have turned them into wisdom.”
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The highest philosophy of the Yogi is based upon this fact, that the Purusha is pure and perfect, and is the only simple that exists in this universe. Words of Patanjali.
Hinduism is also referred to as the Sanātana Dharma (Devanāgarī: सनातन धर्म meaning "eternal dharma"). It is the oldest living religion in the world. Hinduism is a religion as well as a "way of life", and anyone sincerely following that way of life can consider themselves to be a Hindū. What this religion and way of life consists of is a broader topic. Please see our Wiki & FAQs for more info.
The speed and distance that you travel on the path to buddhahood is determined by the level of your courage to go in the opposite direction from what you have been doing since beginningless time.
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“The Buddhist attitude toward life cultivates samvega — a clear acceptance of the meaninglessness of the cycle of birth, aging, and death — and develops it into pasada: a confident path to the Deathless.” - Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Bill with his girl. She is wearing a Falcons Super Bowl Champions shirt. 🤣
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Most days in 2024 exceeded 1.5C warming. Below is a graph that shows the distribution of daily global air temperature differences from the pre-industrial average (1850-1900), 1940-2024
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