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TIL About half of the US Presidents have been bilinguals or polyglots.

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eOj5 TIL that self-injury works to reduce emotional pain because of a phenomenon called pain offset relief. “This may be because the physical pain relief that follows a self-injury event basically tricks the brain into perceiving relief of emotional pain too!”
GYGJQ TIL that there is a temperature scale called the Rankine scale. It uses the absolute zero as it's 0°, but uses the number scale from Fahrenheit. (Compared to Kelvin, which uses the number scale from Celsius)
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9Yk8D TIL about the "nocebo" effect, which is the opposite of the placebo effect. This was demonstrated when a man tried to OD on antidepressants and required IV treatment for low blood pressure, which returned to normal when he was told the pills were fakes