› added 4 years ago

80

TIL researchers did an experiment in 1999 on rats to see how long they could live without sleep. They mostly lasted 2 weeks of this torture before succumbing.

Read more pdfs.semanticscholar.org

via reddit.com

epk04 TIL about Jean Meslier, a French Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism.
BrZQe TIL of the Service Recovery Paradox - If a customer has an issue with a company, and the company then remedy this, that person is more likely to rate that company highly than if there was no problem at all
nekjo TIL that most of the popular Christmas songs, including "White Christmas", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and "Let it Snow" were all written by Jews
Oo6RX TIL the word quarantine derives from the italian word quaranta, meaning forty - because in times of the Black Death ships had to wait 40 Days outside the port to prove they aren’t infested.
ZpAoa TIL the average man picks his nose around four times a day