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

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oRJ7W TIL in the 1950s, when the CIA was fighting the Huks, a communist guerrilla movement in the Philippines, they spread rumors that evil men would be attacked by an aswang or 'vampire'. As part of psychological warfare, they punctured holes in a dead body and drained it of blood for others to find.
W7XkN TIL that Sojourner Truth, famous for her escape from slavery and her work as an abolitionist, was actually from New York state, and spoke Dutch as her first language.
yM0J TIL Peter Cushing, the actor for Grand Moff Tarkin, found his costume’s boots to be very uncomfortable. Any time his feet were not visible in the shot he would be wearing comfy slippers. Grand Moff Tarkin destroyed Alderaan wearing comfy slippers.
W7n8 TIL That Jack Daniels will sell you a barrel of whiskey for about $10,000.
oXgK TIL there are 43 giant sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents, rotting away in a Virginian field due to a failed tourist attraction named “President’s Park”.