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TIL rats will work to free a trapped pal empathetically and altruistically even when there’s a tempting little pile of chocolate chips nearby

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wLeD6 TIL that George Washington had said he would never set foot on British soil again; so some American soil was put under his Trafalgar Square statue in London to comply with his wishes.
N74DE TIL people are more likely to cheat on their spouse when they are on a diet due to willpower being an exhaustible mental resource.
8eMmP TIL Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day
Me6Ya TIL that women in Babylon were required to have done prostitution before they could marry!
oRBX7 TIL Samuel L. Jackson Once Held Martin Luther King Jr.'s Father Hostage During A Campus Protest