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TIL Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico
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TIL about Runaway, a 1984 film from North Korea that features covers of ABBA songs.
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TIL Machias Seal Island is the only land disputed between the US and Canada
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TIL The "Placebo Effect" doesn’t have clinical/medical significance outside of clinical trials, and Placebo's should never be used as a treatment. Placebos do about as good as “no treatment arms” in most studies with objective criteria.
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TIL that John Williams lost at the 50th Academy Awards (Close Encounters)…to himself (Star Wars).
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TIL Andrew Jackson was the first sitting president to almost be assassinated. After the first pistol failed to be discharged a second pistol was pulled, that one too misfired. The likelihood of both pistols misfiring was 120,000 to 1.