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TIL about the "nocebo" effect, which is the opposite of the placebo effect. This was demonstrated when a man tried to OD on antidepressants and required IV treatment for low blood pressure, which returned to normal when he was told the pills were fakes

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OonwR TIL that ashes (cremated remains) can be compressed into a diamond. Several, actually. They've created up to 9 diamonds from a single person's remains.
KOKJB TIL Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) was so upset that the other actors could laugh and be happy while she had to be so cold and heartless that near the end of production she removed her dress and stood in only her panties to prove she was not a cold-hearted monster
Yr9x TIL Chairman Mao told the Japanese PM in 1972 not to apologise for what Japan did in WW2 because they destroyed the Nationalists and helped them come to power.
N76wP TIL that Heat Lightning isn’t an actual type of lightning. It’s the reflection of lightning on clouds from a thunderstorm so distant (and obscured by hills, mountains, curvature of the Earth, etc.) that we can no longer hear the accompanying sound.
e0aX5 TIL that the slave codes in the south forbade slave owners from educating their slaves. The rationale was that if a slave were literate, he could forge a pass and evade capture by slave patrols.