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TIL Bacon was invented in Ancient China

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XEw8R TIL Scientists at UCLA noticed that "time and time again" people suffered their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. They did brain scans after patients ate probiotics, and found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected connectivity of the brain.
jNmMp TIL The lips and trousers' bulge on Victor Noir's grave are noticeably shiny from people kissing and rubbing them. There is a myth that the grave enhances fertility, brings a blissful sex life, or brings a husband within the year. The grave was once fenced in but people protested.
oByDR TIL a woman told an auto shop she had to cancel her service appt. as her car was stolen. One of the 3 Tulsa men who own the auto shop called her back the next day to tell her he & his buddies are chasing her stolen car. With TPD dispatch, they got her car back after after a 15 min chase.
9wZY6 TIL that Barry Sanders' own father asserted that Jim Brown was the greatest runningback ever, and at Barry's HOF induction called him the third best RB ever and barely praised his own son.
MeXd7 TIL Frankie Muniz (Malcom in the Middle) has almost no memory of being on the show and of most of his early life.