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TIL that the placebo effect can have measureable physical effects on the body such as immune response and inflammation

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8doP TIL in the US a teenager can choose to honor or void a contract they have signed at any time before they turn 18 (and they don’t have to give up everything they own)
M9K0 TIL Harry Houdini bought his own airplane and flew it in Australia just 6 years after the Wright brothers made their first flight.
4oJw TIL that Einstein was stopped so much in public, he would reply, “Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
wLMb7 TIL, India is first country in the world to launch more than 100 satellites at one go.
eQAD TIL: There is a ½ mile long wall in Detroit originally built to separate blacks from whites