"Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans--language, rationality, culture and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce."
-Yale psychologist Paul Bloom, quoted in James Gorman's New York Times article about why we eat chilies, despite the pain
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