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TIL that in an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they’d do it without a reward

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JQLl TIL the general who opened Guantanamo prison now wants it to be closed
wonNJ TIL of the practice of leblouh, where young girls in Mauritania are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day in order to fatten them up for marriage.
1AgX TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots’ translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.
e8ln TIL contacts in Microsoft Outlook without profile pictures instead use a silhouette of Bill Gates’ mug shot
Wklmd TIL about South African Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Anglo Boer war soldier, spy for Germany in WW 1 and 2, adviser on big game hunting to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, US citizen, British soldier, journalist, fake Australian war hero and head of the New Food Society in New York, and it goes on.