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TIL that in social cooperation situations, "freeriders" - people who contribute less to the community than others - find positive feedback less motivating than negative feedback, which generously contributing members seem willing to dole out - even if it's costly and even if they get nothing for it.

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JmlB TIL In the Philippines there’s banana ketchup. During WW2 there was a shortage of tomatoes and had to use bananas as a replacement to replicate ketchup. It’s made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices
LkoZ9 TIL that in Toy Story 4 instead of creating all of the individual cobwebs by hand, Pixer created AI spiders that were programmed to spin the webs wherever the cobwebs needed to be.
w8l7 TIL that in 19th Century carnivals in USA, cigars were given as prizes. People who lost at a particular sideshow were told; “close, but no cigar”.
9kxX TIL A man looking for his hammer with a metal detector found one of the largest hoards of Roman gold and silver ever found in Britain
rygo TIL that Germans celebrate Krampus, the half goat demon partner of St. Nicholas who beats naughty children and drags them down to hell. The have festivals where people dress as him and scare children into being good. He’s terrifying.