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TIL That Celiac Disease, Which Requires People to Be Gluten Free, Has Nothing to do With Allergies, But Is Instead an Autoimmune Disease That Can Cause Serious Permanent Damage

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71XO TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.
85w8 TIL that when Joseph Heller was asked why he hadn’t ever written anything as good as Catch-22 since, his reply was that neither has anyone else.
mQLM TIL That the 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place at Lusail, Quatar, a city which does not exist yet.
wooM7 TIL about the Ibadan forest of horror, in which peoples bodyparts were harvested to be sold for ritual sacrifice.
NXwP6 TIL that Thomas Edison and his partner, Edward Johnson, invented the first electric Christmas lights. For Christmas in 1880, Edison dressed his laboratory in lights; and, in 1882, Johnson put electric lights on a Christmas tree. However, lights were expensive, costing about $2,000 per tree in 1901.