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TIL “The birdcage logic is a psychological phenomenon showing our cognitive and behavioral inertia.”

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Gn7Q TIL junk mail companies are charged more money if you send their mail back.
7roZL TIL that alot of animals considered herbivores are actually Omnivores. Deer, Sheep, Camel's, Hippo's, Rabbits, etc can all eat meat.
mxw9o TIL Yellow-bellied sea snakes drink rainwater that gathers on the ocean surface during heavy rainfalls
5YpbD TIL that use of the word "road" for a fixed land route started at the end of the 16th century, with Shakespeare the first known user. Because of that, there are no roads in the "City of London" (London's medieval core): all the ways there had been named before the word came into the English language
neoRB TIL, that few days after Chernobyl disaster, all children in Poland were given Lugol's iodine. This was one of the few cases, when Polish communist government, despite official denials of the Soviet side and against their recommendations, took action in the best interest of their own citizens.