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TIL that only a very small percentage of people are thought to be gluten intolerant, but those and IBS symptoms might actually be related FODMAPS- a group of fermentable carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed by gut bacteria.

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AD7Kd Til - The capacity to lie has also been claimed to be possessed by non-humans in language studies with great apes. In one instance, gorilla Koko, when asked who tore a sink from the wall, pointed to one of her handlers and then laughed.
0Plp TIL on April Fool’s 2002, 2 radio DJs suggested Kansas’ water supply was contaminated with “Dihydrogen Monoxyde” (H20), announcing it caused excessive sweating and wrinkled skin. It led to thirty 911 calls, water officials comparing it to a terrorist act, and both DJs being suspended indefinitely.
XyBP TIL Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas celebrate Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s birthday the same day as Martin Luther King Jr Day
VNWG TIL in 1840 Abraham Lincoln and four other legislators jumped out of a window in order to prevent a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois state bank.
M7yQm TIL in 1890 a German immigrant named Eugene Schieffelin decided it would be a great idea to introduce as many of Shakespeare's birds as possible to North America