☝️Upwarding #80: Oxford is Older Than The Aztecs, Shipping Your Kids via Mail, Authenticity

Health/Wellness

Being cold for long periods of time helps lower blood sugar.

Money

Reward is always relative to risk.

Put another way: there is no such thing as safe, high return investments (if you find one, come get your Nobel prize).  Applying this you would have avoided: Bernie Madoff’s scam, The Terra/Luna breakdown, Icelandic Savings Accounts, etc.  There will be others.  Remember this.

Random

In the early 1900s, you could ship your kids unaccompanied via US Mail.

Reflection/Quote

“All you lose by being real is something that's fake.” - Unknown

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