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TIL the color of a placebo pill matters. In a classic study, researchers randomized patients to receive different color placebo pills for pain relief - they found that red placebo pills “worked” the best.

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neKYG TIL the word Geek was originally an early 20th-century term for a carnival worker who was so unskilled that the only thing they could do at a carnival to attract a crowd was to bite off the heads of live animals such as chickens, snakes and rats and swallow them
R54w7 TIL The K-25 Plant Cost 8.6 Billion Adjusted for Inflation
X0Ma8 TIL cats have a varying number of nipples.
M9pV TIL that the russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski got struck in the face by a proton beam in a particle accelerator, and survived. He described the sensation as seeing a light “brighter than a thousand suns”
l7OE7 TIL that if you plant an apple seed, there’s only a 1/80,000 chance the tree it becomes will produce the same kind of apple you took it from - much less even produce apples desirable for eating.