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TIL that in the "Cookie Monster" study, experimenters randomly appointed one person the leader of a small group. When an experimenter brought in a plate of 5 cookies, the "leaders" were more likely to take a second cookie, and to eat with their mouths open and get crumbs all over the place.

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4xl5 TIL there is a school in England where they have been wearing the same uniform for 460 years.
oBvXW TIL Boris Yeltsin abandoned communism partly due to a visit to a Randall's Grocery store in Clear Lake, TX
epeGb TIL of existence of rogue holes, the inverse of rogue waves, where the depth of the hole can reach more than twice the significant wave height
gr1wD TIL that the "Lloyd's Bank coprolite" is the largest-recorded fossilized piece of human faeces in existence. It is about 1200 years old, 8 inches long, 2 inches wide and was dropped by a Viking who mainly subsisted on meat and grains.
X01v6 TIL A galactic "second" is eight earth years. The "big year"—a complete rotation of the Milky Way—takes 250 million of our local years to complete, making a comparable "day" nearly 700 thousand years, an "hour" 25,500 years, and a "minute" 475 years. A galactic "nanosecond" is 1/4 of an earth second