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BWPK TIL that a Scot was awarded a medal for gallantry by the Queen for kicking a terrorist, who was on fire, in the testicles.
Jp7l TIL that a study of self-reported gluten sensitive people without celiac’s disease showed that high-gluten, low-gluten and control diets affected the participants in the same way.
7LRX TIL that safety concerns about “pencil lead” were actually about lead being in the yellow paint on the pencils. Graphite has always been used as the core, and there was never a “lead” pencil in this century
E1anW TIL Oklahoma has the highest rate of childhood trauma in the US, measured using the ACE test. The aftereffects of this are seen in levels of incarceration, deaths by heart disease, divorce, and more. An ACE score of just 2/10 can increase future risk of social and physical struggles.
l7Zj7 TIL that the biggest box office hit of 1987 was a Leonard Nimoy movie - not as Spock in a Star Trek film but as the director of Three Men and a Baby.