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TIL Tylenol(paracetamol) also reduces pain from social rejection(i.e. emotional pain).

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vd9K TIL that despite fighting against Nazi troops, with 17,000 dying in combat, Colonial French (Black) troops were not allowed to liberate Paris because of their skin colour. To ensure that a French regiment was allowed to liberated Paris, De Gaulle was forced to use Spanish (white) soldiers
9wbO7 TIL: the macadamia nut is the only indigenous Australian plant grown as a large scale commercial food crop
jNpGR TIL the term "geek" was originally used to describe someone who was paid to bite the heads off of live chickens as a circus act.
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