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56K9 TIL in a Dutch auction, the price is REDUCED until a single bid is made, thus ending the sale.
lbyr TIL Its been shown bronze medal winners are happier than silver medal winners. This is due to counterfactual thinking: the silver medalists are more likely to compare themselves with gold medalist, while the bronze medal winners are more likely to compare themselves with 4th place finishers.
wLBA1 TIL Humans are incredible long distance runners. There’s a Man vs Horse marathon held in Wales annually since 1980. It’s been won by a human multiple times after the first human winner in 2004.
Y7XXP TIL that gambling is analogous to a scarcity-related foraging behavior found in non-human species.
XE94X TIL When Chinua Achebe became the editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series, one of the first books he chose was a collection of stories by Cyprian Ekwensi. Ekwensi became one of the most prolific African writers of the twentieth century