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TIL health professionals are more likely than the public at large to buy generic painkillers, because they realize that they’re just as effective as name brands

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b97Y9 TIL that Japanese researchers have discovered that administering an electrical shock that simulates a lightning strike can increase mushroom yields -- leading to more and bigger mushrooms.
la1r TIL about J.R.R. Tolkien’s service as a Lieutenant in World War I. He fought in The Battle of the Somme, and it has been suggested that the horrors of trench warfare shaped his later depictions of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings.
d8MVB TIL that the #1 high school in California also has one of the highest suicide rates in the country.
JYd7m TIL Sculptor Michelangelo had no experience painting frescoes and did not consider himself a painter when he reluctantly took the commission for the Sistine Chapel. He even wrote a poem about how much he hated doing it.
OK11 TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry!