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TIL: Texting behind the rule

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4kx5J TIL that the Ottoman Empire founded a hospital specifically for injured storks in 19th-century Bursa, called the Gurabahane-i Laklakan.
9YDaG TIL monkeys show signs of both risk aversion and loss aversion, and can be taught to use currency - in experiments with statistically identical outcomes, monkeys performed like humans in preferring to avoid risky transactions, and by putting more weight on losses than on gains
x61bb TIL That actor Dermot Mulroney had a small part in the Star Wars universe. An accomplished cello player Mulroney played as part of the orchestral score for Rogue One. In addition he has been part of the orchestras for the Mission Impossible and Star Trek films.
E1XpV TIL Sum 41 declined a deal to provide a punk cover of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" for Zoolander's gasoline fight scene after watching a screening with the original song as a placeholder. "It’s perfect. You’ll ruin it by us doing a punk version of that."
0d0mA TIL that the Accessible Pedestrian Signal sound that gets pedestrians' attention the most efficiently is a "rapid tick," which sounds like a machine gun.