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

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m1wPP TIL During the Reformation, a knight named Hans von Hake asked Johann Tetzel to purchase an indulgence for a future sin. Tetzel sold Hake an indulgence for a future non-specific sin. Hake then ambushed, and robbed Johann Tetzel of all of his indulgence money.
V9MZ TIL that when a study was done on people who suffered from constant/chronic Déjà Vu, a man declined to take part because he felt like he had done it before
wYb1 TIL the Grateful Dead provided funding for the Lithuanian national basketball team for the 1992 Olympics since the squad could not afford to participate. They wore tie-died jerseys during games and donned full Dead regalia during the medal ceremony for winning 3rd place.
Y7YvP TIL that hummingbirds can remember every flower they’ve visited, even across vast distances, and adjust their feeding routes with near-perfect timing to match nectar refills essentially making them nature’s tiny GPS-enabled robots.
p8QPb TIL The Veterans Administration lobotomized over 1900 veterans of World War II