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TIL higher social class is associated with increased unethical behavior

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oOYE TIL that MIT researchers studying tongue twisters developed “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod,” which nobody could say 10 times fast. Some who tried it just stopped trying to talk.
W7dGN TIL The number of species at risk of extinction has doubled to 2 million
oDPR TIL Don McLean occasionally accidentally sang the lyrics to Weird Al’s Star Wars parody of “American Pie” when performing it onstage
KjZR TIL That the U.S. prison population is about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners even though the country itself holds only 5 percent of the world’s population.
WkQjA TIL that a human being can remain perfectly functional after having an entire cerebral hemisphere removed. One patient completed college, attended graduate school and scored above average on intelligence tests, with literally only half a brain.