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TIL Psychology research shows that people love to hate do-gooders (especially at work). Highly co-operative and generous people can attract hatred and social punishment, especially in competitive circumstances.

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JeDj TIL A British sailor in WWII escaped his submarine from depths of 171 feet and managed to get to the surface and survive.
vBJK TIL that in 1998, Texan judge Jack Hampton sentenced a man for 30 years for killing two gay men instead of life requested by the prosecuter. He justified it by stating “I put prostitutes and gays at about the same level … and I’d be hard put to give somebody life for killing a prostitute.”
6EyZW TIL that some beaches in Hawaii are white due to fish poop.
yWMM TIL that despite the Seven Years’ War between Britain and France, France instructed its ships not to interfere with the Endeavour’s expedition to Tahiti to observe the 1769 Transit of Venus as, it was ‘out on enterprises of service to all mankind’.
LJpP TIL a man cracked the knuckles on only one of his hands for sixty years to prove that knuckle cracking doesn’t cause arthritis, earning him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize