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TIL that after data reviews, "no evidence [was found] that placebo interventions in general have large clinical effects"

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P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
8ageG TIL in the 1950s there was a past-life and hypnosis craze in the U.S. that started when a hypnotized housewife began randomly speaking in an Irish brogue.
panA TIL that Sergey Tuganov died after winning a £3,000 bet that he could have sex with 2 women continuously for 12 hours. He used an entire bottle of Viagra and dies from a heart attack
WkopN TIL of Conrad Veidt, the man who played the villain in Casablanca, who gave up a career as one of the highest-paid actors in Germany in '33. When forced to declare his race for the government he wrote "Juden" despite not being Jewish, because his wife was and he wouldn't renounce her.
16V5V TIL in 1982, Linn Electronics released the LinnDrum drum machine as a cheaper and more widely produced product than its predecessor, the 1980 Linn LM-1. The LinnDrum then became a staple of ‘80s music, and was used by artists like Prince, MJ, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, John Carpenter, and more.