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TIL about the IKEA effect which is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.

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X5QX TIL penguins were once introduced in Norway. One of them was promptly shot by a Norwegian matron who claimed it was a freak of nature that had invaded her yard.
x6LVk TIL in the '40s theatrical producer John Reber promoted a plan to build two dams to change most of San Francisco Bay into two freshwater lakes. He got a lot of support, but the US Army Corps of Engineers built a giant working model of the bay to show how this plan was a terrible idea
R5M5w TIL that states required blood tests to get married until 1980, the latest being Montana in 2019. These blood tests originally checked for syphilis when it was a crisis and transitioned to checking for STDs.
BDax TIL that there are still two McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. that serve Pizza. One is in Pomeroy, Ohio, and the other is in Spencer, West Virginia.
kJYyW TIL Pumpkin toadlets (Brachycephalus) are a species of frog that can jump but then go limp, spin, and fail at landing. Purportedly their semicircle ear canals have evolved to be too small to accurately detect angular acceleration while they’re airborne.