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TIL that intelligent people are more likely to trust others

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JYXvB TIL Charli XCX is half Indian, with her mother being Gujarati.
LklLm TIL about hedonic adaptation, which is the tendency for people to return to a baseline happiness level regardless of what happens to them. A study conducted on lottery winners and paraplegics concluded that neither group was either happier or sadder less than 6 months after the event.
RAya TIL that the word “chortle,” meaning “to laugh in a breathy, gleeful way,” was a nonsense word in Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”