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TIL that the IKEA effect is an actual cognitive bias in which consumers place more value on products they themselves created at least partially.

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nWm6G TIL it’s legal to eat Guinea Pig in the United States. It falls under the same exotic meats category as rabbit, bison, and venison.
v1Adj TIL John Von Neumann was an American polymath who is known as the last of the great mathematicians. On his deathbed, he entertained his brother by reciting the first lines of each page of Goethe’s Faust word-for-word by heart. He knew state secrets, so federal agents guarded his bed till his death.
OG5yX TIL that Africa is being torn apart by the East African Rift. You can already see its effect by many lakes forming a line between the red sea and Lake Malawi
Y7JmB TIL that everything from the ice hockey Stanley Cup, Port Stanley in the Falklands, Brisbane's Stanley county and Liverpool's Stanley Dock and Park are all named after one father and son.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.