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TIL Red placebo pills are more effective than Blue placebo pills

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J1WgV TIL we lose 200-300 ML of water every night just from breathing while sleeping!
loJoV TIL Bill Nye’s full name is William Sanford Nye. His mom was a code breaker during WW2. His dad was a contractor building an airstrip on Wake Island in the middle of the Pacific when he was caught by the Japanese and spent four years as a POW.
d6Ar TIL Nixon gave Elvis a federal narcotics badge which Elvis thought would legally allow him to enter any country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished!
kOKlE TIL about Taxi Dance Halls of the late 1920s and early '30s where lonely men looking for human contact paid 10 cents a song to dance with women for a few minutes. In 1931, there were at least 100 taxi dance halls in New York, visited by up to 50,000 men each week.
eeob TIL Video Games were initially called “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Devices” which were used by the Military.