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TIL That up to 62% of Icelanders believe in Elves
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MrdK
TIL that experiment participants invited to eat soup ate 73% more soup if (unknown to them) their bowl was attached to a pump and vat of soup that refilled their bowl as they ate.
Vkb8
TIL When a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it will drop a matching feather on the other side to maintain its balance.
XyJX
TIL that Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t actually look for his shadow at all, but instead speaks Groundhogese to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club president who translates it to English.
e0PeL
TIL Sigmund Freud attempted to help his friend Fleischl-Marxow, who had become addicted to morphine and heroin due to chronic pain caused by having his thumb removed, by prescribing him medical cocaine. His friend became addicted to cocaine as well and continued to use morphine until his death at 45
BdLk
TIL Loki was the god of wildfire and mischief, he once bet his head and lost, however he got away with it because to have his head, his neck would have to be cut, his neck was not part of the deal.