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TIL: Homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work in the U.S.

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jN69n TIL we call letters "uppercase" and "lowercase" because the original printing presses kept letter blocks in literal cases; since small letters were used more often, they kept them in the bottom case for easy access; thus, lowercase (and uppercase) were born.
4wWb TIL learned that in the 1790s, the Guillotine was so popular, they made child sized one for kids to behead their dolls and rodents, and the wealthy had tiny ones on their dining table, for slicing bread.
oBJe7 TIL that Bob Barker trained for eight years with Chuck Norris and is a black belt.
Bgvjd TIL: Viking-era Scandinavians believed every person had a sort of luck spirit that could leave the body under extreme circumstances. The English saying that someone’s luck has run out is actually an adaptation of a Norse proverb. But when the Norse said it, they meant it literally.
W76G9 TIL of of Arnauld Gellis, a medieval french villager who was called into questioning by the inquisition in 1320 because he claimed to be able to see and talk to ghosts and occasionaly help them pass on "to the other side". He described numerous ghost encounters, in vivid detail