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TIL Fake smiling causes real happiness

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90em TIL NYC rents have increased 75% since 2000, while median income has decreased 5%
wLjx6 TIL anything obtained in space and brought back to earth is the legal property of whoever obtained it, and big tech/space companies are already trying to salvage asteroids, meteors, and comets for valuable elements
69A9Q TIL that during World War II, publication of the Michelin Guide was suspended. In 1944, at the request of the Allied Forces, the 1939 guide to France was specially reprinted for military use; its maps were judged the best and most up-to-date available.
nMEY TIL that Piggly Wiggly revolutionized grocery shopping in 1916 by allowing customers to select their own items, “To have no store clerks gab and smirk while folks are standing around ten deep to get waited on.”
6Ebe7 TIL about the man who cut out his own appendix. The only doctor an an expedition to Antarctica, there was only one man and a bottle of whisky for the job.