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TIL of the Ben Franklin Effect, "a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them". The opposite is also true, people come to dislike others to whom they have done wrong

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r6a0 TIL The Royal Navy commissioned a class of fast patrol boats during the 1950s which were all prefixed with the word ‘gay’. Names of boats in this class included Gay Bruiser and Gay Charger.
ney6b TIL that a single inhalation from the Colorado River Toad's toxins can enhance a persons life satisfaction and mental state.
xVeMB til Toy Story 2 was accidentally deleted but was saved when technical director Galyn Susman, who had been working from home to take care of her newborn child, revealed she had backups of the assets on her home computer.
Y786G TIL The Khejarli massacre in 1730 resulted in 363 protestors being killed while protecting a forest. This gave rise to the "Chipko Movement" also known as "Tree huggers" in India
5YxxP TIL that in medieval times, there was a real fear that some people would kill holy men and women to sell off their body parts as relics. Guards even had had to watch over mortally ill holy men and women to prevent their body parts being sold soon as they died.