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TIL of all youth sports, baseball has the highest fatality rate

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Z8Dm4 TIL in 2005 the Australian Government banned the use of the word 'Mate' in Parliament. However, the ban lasted all of 24 hours before it was repealed after being described 'absurd and ridiculous' by the Prime Minister.
gnvA TIL NFL player Brian Bosworth outraged Denver Broncos fans, then sold 10,000 of them 15$ T-shirts that said “Ban the Boz”, without them knowing that he was selling them.
oRe5L Today I learned that the opposite of the placebo effect is called the nocebo effect, and occurs when a patient, believing he is taking a drug, is likely to recreate, by suggestion, side effects he may have heard about, or simply read about on the médication package.
0dGoj TIL about Ken Saro Wiwa, an activist and writer who protested against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. Shell is accused of being complicit in his arrest and subsequent execution.
x6Y1 TIL there has only been one known albino gorilla. His name was Snowflake.