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TIL - Chinese Restaurant Syndrome actually originated from a letter by a Chinese physician named Kwok that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968, describing certain symptoms he had experienced after eating Chinese food.

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8exyV TIL that The Great Attractor. In the realm of cosmic mysteries, it is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. It's pulling galaxies towards it, including our own.
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