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TIL that offering a reward for a previously unrewarded activity is a shift toward extrinsic motivation and a weakening of pre-existing intrinsic motivation

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WnBA TIL Arab and Persian lands produced several outspoken rationalists and atheists during Islamic Golden Age. Al-Ma'arri wrote and taught that religion itself was a “fable invented by the ancients” .
nDQo TIL breast cancer receives the most funding per new case, $2,596, while prostate cancer, the most common cancer, receives the least funding per new case at just $1,318
rRaPy TIL that port 666 is reserved by the IANA, the official body that oversees IP address allocations on the internet, for playing 'Doom'.
VBlNB TIL Catholic services were preformed with the priest facing away from the audience until the 1960’s.
kOKlE TIL about Taxi Dance Halls of the late 1920s and early '30s where lonely men looking for human contact paid 10 cents a song to dance with women for a few minutes. In 1931, there were at least 100 taxi dance halls in New York, visited by up to 50,000 men each week.