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TIL Despite the health claims for gluten-free eating, there is no published experimental evidence to support such claims for the general population.

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xVVGk Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close. The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a football field, a person starting at one end zone could get about 95 yards before burning up.
yV8yJ TIL that the North Korean animation studio SEK has been involved in animating several western movies and TV shows, including The Simpsons Movie, several episodes of Futurama, and the Season 3 Premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender
R7wGQ TIL A full-time nurse named Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband Albert invented the first home security system in 1966. She was inspired to do so because she saw how long it would take the police to arrive in her neighborhood after a crime was reported.
R5D96 TIL an Argentinian government official was once caught red-handed at 4AM hiding $7 million in cash at a convent with the aid of nuns (in their 80s)
NrXN TIL, that the Doomsday Clock, a measure of how close we are global disaster, is at 11.55pm, the worst it’s been since 1984.