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TIL higher social class is associated with increased unethical behavior

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lN8V TIL that scientists created a completely enclosed, artificial environment called Biosphere 2 and made one mistake that caused all the trees to fall down before maturation: there was no wind so trees failed to develop stress wood, which is necessary for them to stand.
Y7xxP TIL the worst serial killer--Luis Garavito--had 193 confirmed victims. He died of eye cancer in October.
adK9 TIL Japanese created a smoke alarm for those who can’t hear, that pumps super-spicy wasabi mist into the air to alert them.
neBJB TIL Stanford has the strongest sports program out of any university in the US in terms of number of NCAA championships won
1aaB4 TIL that the first motion picture came through the technology of series photography by the British American photographer Eadweard Muybridge between 1872 and 1877.