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TIL that psychologist B. F. Skinner got pigeons to repeat strange "rituals" by dropping food into their cage at random intervals. The birds associated their actions before the treats with reward, and demonstrated superstitious repetition of those actions

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TIL that the most viscous liquid on earth is Pitch (or bitumen) and it took 69 years for one drop to fall

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TIL that psychologist B. F. Skinner got pigeons to repeat strange "rituals" by dropping food into their cage at random intervals. The birds associated their actions before the treats with reward, and demonstrated superstitious repetition of those actions	681
TIL that the most viscous liquid on earth is Pitch (or bitumen) and it took 69 years for one drop to fall	130