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TIL Rats in a cage with drugs don't use drugs if they're given enough to do.

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4krMw TIL a town in India is addicted to chess after one man taught everyone how to play 50 years ago to eliminate excessive alcohol consumption and gambling, which has now all decreased to nearly nothing.
XEdwk TIL when the Red Hot Chili Peppers were accused of plagiarizing a Tom Petty song Petty himself said, " A Lot of songs sound alike. "
LQ0gp TIL of Ye Fei, a Chinese general born in the Philippines who was commander of the PLA during World War 2 and the Chinese Civil War, and went on to serve as Commander in Chief of the Chinese Navy then Governor of Fujian Province, and retained his Philippines citizenship throughout the years.
Z8m4Y TIL about the Battle of Saragarhi, in which 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment were stationed at an army post and were attacked by 10,000 to 12,000 Afghans. The Sikhs chose to fight to the death, in what is considered by some military historians as one of history's greatest last stands.
jgPp TIL there is a theory by Richard Feynman that suggests there is only one electron in the universe and it weaves itself back and forth through time to create everything we know and see.