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TIL The ‘nocebo effect’ in IBS: Why gluten might not be the real problem

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Wx4o TIL that contrary to the popular myth, slaves did not build the great pyramid of Giza
EavV TIL barns are painted red because red paint is cheap. The paint is cheap because iron is plentiful, and iron is plentiful because it is the final element formed out of a star’s death.
oBJRY TIL that John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on November 22, 1963.
4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
awQr0 TILA about the WW2 German War Graves on the British Army base on Thorney Island