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TIL movie previews were originally shown at the end of a film, trailing the main feature. This is why movie previews are called “trailers.”

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QJMLd TIL: Patients respond significantly better to placebo medications when told that they cost $1500 a pill.
eXLg TIL in Washington state, it’s illegal for anyone with any contagious disease to willfully expose themselves to the public.
1myD TIL frustrated book publishers convinced the New York Times to add a children’s category to their Bestselling book list due to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone holding the #1 spot for 2 years
eQDn TIL In WWII, only 8,300 British and American POWs—3.6 percent—died in German custody. 3.3 Million Soviet POWs—57%—were killed because they were seen as racially inferior.
xww TIL- That a famine in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 killed around 400,000-1,000,000 people and that 56,000 tons of food donated by aid efforts from the West through Live Aid was left to rot in a port by the Ethiopian government.