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TIL that Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can be caused by many factors, the most alarming being childhood trauma.

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oRAR8 TIL Scientists showed that lisdexamphetamine maybe a good treatment for cocaine addiction by giving a bunch of coked up monkeys amphetamines
0yZA TIL that several long-duration Russian cosmonauts have reported that months after coming back to Earth, they occasionally let go objects in mid-air, still expecting them to float.
ZkBv TIL that Indian Casinos came about because a Native American couple, Russell and Helen Bryan, living on a reservation fought property tax all the way up to the Supreme Court therefore establishing precedent that the US government cannot regulate Indian affairs on reservations.
8e8nV TIL that 20-50% of all fatal hypothermia cases strip their clothes off before they finally freeze to death.
7P1O TIL that in 2011, a Caucasian American was arrested after it was discovered he was plotting to blow up a Detroit mosque with 500 people inside. It hardly received media coverage.