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TIL that in social cooperation situations, "freeriders" - people who contribute less to the community than others - find positive feedback less motivating than negative feedback, which generously contributing members seem willing to dole out - even if it's costly and even if they get nothing for it.
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TIL the rate of fatal accidents due to wagons and horses in 1907 was 42 per 1 million people. For comparison, the motor vehicle fatality rate in 2023 was 120.6 per 1 million people (USA)
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TIL In the 1950s, the bureaucracy of Uruguay grew so large that there was little money left for operations. It got so bad that the Ministry of Public Works halted road work entirely because its whole budget was used to pay personnel and there was nothing left for fuel, equipment or materials.