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TIL: A researcher set up speakers playing the sound of rushing water in a calm pond and beavers repeatedly covered the speakers until they couldn’t hear the sound anymore.

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b9KZ TIL that when Einstein “wanted a divorce from his first wife, he gave her the ultimatum that, if she wanted to remain with him and not grant him a divorce, then he expected her to serve him three meals a day in his room but not expect any intimacy in return.”
9Yp87 TIL that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all.
gZ74 TIL Keith Richards, after being caught with an ounce of heroin and five grams of cocaine in canada, abandoned by his band and facing life in prison for drug trafficking, found himself alone in the studio the night before his court date, and recorded his first 5 songs ever has a solo artist.
e0ypk TIL a lord mayor of London had a glass box built so that he would not catch the plague.
9YYwm TIL raw unfiltered honey can be almost as pungent as cheese.