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TIL the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics said that there is no evidence to support the use of detox diets for weight management or toxin elimination, & that considering the financial costs and potential health risks of them, they should be discouraged by health professionals.

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l4LN TIL When the creation of the ‘Cheers’ spinoff, 'Frasier’ was announced, Cheers cast-member Kirstie Alley called producer David Lee to tell him she wouldn’t make any appearances on the show, because she was a Scientologist and didn’t believe in psychiatry. He replied, “I don’t recall asking.”
oBJv8 TIL When twitter switched from 140 to 280 characters, political discourse became more polite, less informal, more analytical, but less substantive.
Brnwx TIL: Thanks to a 1665 idea of King Charles II (and to river-meandering), there's a cut-off 5-mile lobe of Kentucky that's not connected to any of Kentucky; it's all surrounded by other states (Missouri & Tennessee). Fewer than 20 people live in this "bubble" of KY ("Bubbleland" AKA "Kentucky Bend").
naW7 TIL There’s a red, white and blue buoy marking the spot that Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry (inspiring him to write the Star Spangled Banner) in the Patapsco River. Picture in comments.
nep0r TIL a man called Roger Sperry performed brain experiments on cats and monkeys. He found that if the two brain hemispheres were not connected they would function independently of one another, and even enable the split-brain of the animals to memorize double the information.