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TIL conservatives and liberals can be identified with 70% accuracy based on brain scans

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W71j9 TIL the Chinese version of instagram is literally called ‘LittleRedBook’, a pun based on Facebook and Mao’s famous book of quotes.
QJK7d TIL in the U.S. (unlike other countries), the placebo effect is so strong that new painkillers have trouble beating it in clinical trials.
QJLR6 TIL there is a condition called chimerism(named after the mythical chimera) where people are born with two set of DNA because they absorbed their twin while still in the uterus.
99vr TIL the word “whiskey” comes from a Gaelic phrase meaning “water of life”
014v TIL last time somebody died from a spider bite in Australia was in 1979