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TIL Stanford researchers offered kids 1 marshmallow now OR 2 if they waited 15 mins. Only 1/3 of kids waited—later in life, they had: higher SAT scores, healthier relationships, better job performance, and fewer chronic diseases

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grLa7 TIL A 15th-century chapel, said to have been visited by Joan of Arc, is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chapel was relocated from France to Long Island in 1927. Then in 1966, the chapel was moved to the campus of Marquette University where it remains today.
6EMaW TIL of Zeer Pot, a refrigeration tool that doesn't require electricity extending usable life of corps to weeks.
am4J TIL Tex Johnson, a Boeing test pilot, was to demonstrate the then-new 707 to a group of airline executives by doing a level fly by. Instead, he barrel-rolled the aircraft. When called in by his boss and asked what the hell he was doing, he said “Selling airplanes.”
W9vL TIL There’s an individual whale, known as the 52-hertz whale, which sings at a frequency unique among whales. It’s also thought to be the loneliest whale in the world.
nlAP TIL in 2010 a professor went on a diet consisting mainly of Twinkies to prove weight loss was from calorie deficit, not nutrition.