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TIL China has a Social Credit System similar to Black Mirror’s “Nosedive”

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WK88 TIL: Bruce Alexander, an experimental psychologist, studied addiction in lab rats, and created Rat Park – A Rat Utopian World in which rats almost always refused drugs (morphine), while rats in solitary confinement overdosed on a regular basis…
xWOB TIL that Habsburg dynasty has a unique lip structure and this is a result of incestuous selection of marriage partners.
Ql8X TIL that before 2003, it was legal for 16-year-old girls to pose topless in British newspapers. One paper, the Daily Sport, was known to count down the days until it could feature a girl topless on her 16th birthday.
6EmxY TIL from the 12th to the 17th century in medieval Europe, mummies were eaten as a drug
Lkxv TIL That dinosaurs couldn’t roar because they didn’t have a vocal system. This makes my childhood me feel sad.