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TIL: of "Raining Blobs in Oakville,"** a phenomenon that occurred in Oakville, Washington, in 1994, where gelatinous blobs fell from the sky. These biomass blobs were at first reported to contain human white blood cells, while this was debunked their origin remains a mystery

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yRDp TIL a rigorous experiment found that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably doesn’t exist and instead patients were experiencing a ‘nocebo’ effect.
mx49p TIL that in Avatar: The Last Airbender, "The Boulder" was voiced by WWE Legend Mick Foley, after they were unable to get The Rock, who the "The Boulder" was based on.
65wZ TIL the Qibya massacre, occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. Sixty-nine Palestinian Arabs, two-thirds of them women and children, were killed. Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed.
Nby8 TIL: Mountains on Titan, a moon of Saturn, must all be named after mountains in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings
kJ9P5 TIL about Sir Robert Hart, the most important and influential Westerner in Qing dynasty China. He was China's Inspector General of Maritime Customs for nearly half a century and also laid the foundations for China's national postal service, railway, meteorological and navigation systems.