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TIL: The unhappiest poor people get much happier if you give them more money. But the happiest poor people don't get that much happier.

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8a6b8 TIL "Gamergate" can refer to the 2014 internet controversy OR to a mated worker ant that is able to reproduce sexually.
7rwMM TIL a 4-yr-old captive beluga whale who'd been living with belugas moved to a dolphinarium where her only companions were dolphins. In her early days with the dolphins, she made beluga "contact calls." Within 2 months, the beluga imitated dolphin whistles & dropped the beluga calls altogether.
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