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TIL 2 rats will stop playing with each other if the bigger one doesn't let the smaller one win at least 30% of the time

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JYJMQ TIL 2 Things: "Master Putter-Togetherer" is an actual job title...and they put together REALLY expensive, high-quality scissors
dr6Q TIL lobster used to be “poor people’s food”. A can of lobster was cheaper than a can of baked beans.
oBKKY TIL that one reason spicy foods are common in hot countries is that spicy foods make you sweat, which in turn helps you cool down faster. It's a phenomenon called "gustatory hidrosis."
x6EBb TIL Nichelle Nichols wanted to leave Star Trek for Broadway and informed the producer. That weekend, she met Martin Luther King who said she was a role model and Star Trek was the only show he watched his kids stay up to watch. She changed her mind, and when the producer learned why, he teared up
167Or TIL: In 1667, the Dutch traded the island of New Amsterdam to the British for the island of Banda Run in order to gain control over the nutmeg spice trade. The British renamed New Amsterdam to New York.