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TIL: Graham Crackers Were Created to Kill Your Sex Drive

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bZO7 TIL a 1970s Canadian science experiment made drugs freely available to both caged rats and colony rats: The rats in cages developed drug habits. The rats in normal ‘society’ refused them.
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OoOea TIL Alexander Hamilton didn’t believe in democracy, which he labeled an American “disease.” He fought—with military force—any model of organizing the American political economy that might promote egalitarian politics. He was an authoritarian, and proud of it.