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TIL: Steve Martin has a band, and they are just delightful.
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TIL of a secret society called Cicada 3301, that has on six occasions posted puzzles and alternate reality games (some lasting years) in an attempt to recruit code breakers from the public.
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TIL: Telecommunication companies participate in each countries' "spectrum auction" in which they bid on the right to use specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum for a time period. In the US, the FCC has raised over $60 billion from the bids so far.
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TIL that Prince is a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and occasionally knocks on people’s doors to discuss his faith.
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TIL that placebos have been found to be an effective treatment for pain perception. A placebo treatment given to people who chronically suffer from migraine headaches was found to be just as effective as a widely used migraine drug, according to a study published in Science Translational Medicine.
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TIL that pre-Hispanic Mexicans believed that gold deposits were divine diarrhea, the leavings of the sun-god Tonatiuh as he passed through the underworld each night.