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TIL that research shows that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiveness between real drugs and placebos has narrowed and even more so in the US than anywhere else

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4JRN TIL that the EPA has approved the use of beer hops to help save the bee population in the United States and stop Colony Collapse Disorder.
d89Dd Til Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another
699AJ TIL: In 1990 Jennifer Aniston played a version of Jennifer Grey's Jeannie Bueller for a Ferris Bueller TV series that was so bad it was cancelled after the first season
dbQr TIL 1% of all electricity consumed in the USA is used in the growing of marijuana
gj47 TIL that the PS2 version of the arcade game “beatmania” was criticised in 2006 for being a “ripoff of [recently released] Guitar Hero”. The beatmania series began in 1997.