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TIL that an extensive research of dropping wallets was done to study honesty. 279 top economists agreed that a wallet with more money would be less likely to be returned but the actual results turned out to be opposite across countries and culture.

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wl6J TIL Matt Damon and Ben Affleck inserted an oral sex scene between the two professors in Good Will Hunting to see which studio executives actually read the script. Harvey Weinstein liked the script, but hated that scene which showed Damon & Affleck he had actually read it so they gave him the rights.
EgdWd TIL spiders can have up to 7 different types of silk for different purposes
v1yW7 TIL that in the Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey, a quota system limits students of any one country or linguistic region (e.g. English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries) to 10% of the school’s total population, which results in the 450 students coming from over 70 countries
DloV TIL of Lake Disappointment, Western Australia. So named because the explorer who discovered it followed creeks inland expecting to find a large lake, only to be disappointed when it turned out to be a large salt flat.
nA1b TIL a 21 year old college student, Maura Murray, mysteriously vanished in Feb 2004 after she wrecked and abandoned her car in the New Hampshire White Mountain area. Only 3 minutes passed between being last seen and an office arriving to find she was gone. She has never been found or heard from since