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TIL the Placebo effect can still be observed even if the person is told they are receiving a placebo

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GAnjE TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire
8aDkG TIL that steel shortages in WW1 is what led women to abandon the corset and transition into bras as we know them today.
Y7eYP TIL scientists in 2002 reconstructed and synthesized a visual pigment gene present in the last common ancestor of birds and crocodiles (archosaurs).
1ejr TIL the world’s first speeding ticket was given to a man going 4x the speed limit. Walter Arnold, who was going 8mph in a 2mph zone, was caught by a policeman on a bicycle and fined one schilling.
lnV5 TIL ‘Mountain Dew’ was originally Southern and/or Irish slang for moonshine