Jacob Something<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PrivateProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateProperty</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Tupperware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tupperware</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/UsbCables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UsbCables</span></a></p><p>Early research from the J. Locke lab in the 17th century established that things that are a certain person's property stay that way until bought, thrown away, given away, or sold.</p><p>In the 1990s scientists discovered that Tupperware shows a surprising behaviour: When your friend leaves it at your place, it becomes your property.</p><p>Recently, several groundbreaking experiments conducted by European researchers showed that USB cables exhibit the same bewildering behaviour.</p><p>Even more astonishingly, researchers found it suffices that you inadvertently place a cable into your bag or pocket for that cable to turn into your property.</p>