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TIL that experiment participants invited to eat soup ate 73% more soup if (unknown to them) their bowl was attached to a pump and vat of soup that refilled their bowl as they ate.

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wLgnJ TIL motion sensor data (accessible without user permission in iOS and Android) can reveal your health condition, body features, age, sex, emotional state, biometric identity, driving style, smoking behaviour, intoxication, text typed on the touchscreen, and location — even when GPS is disabled.
awwaZ TIL the tiger blankets I've seen at the homes of multiple Mexican families are called San Marcos (and they have patterns other than tiger)
4Maw TIL During the Second World War, Pablo Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. During one search of his apartment, a German officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. “Did you do that?” the German asked Picasso. To which he replied “No, you did”.
kjp4 TIL that Alabama didn’t overturn their ban on interracial marriage until the year 2000.
GAKLg TIL that 7 former U.S. Supreme Court Justices had no formal university legal education