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TIL there are no significant benefits of a gluten-free diet, if you do not have Celiac Disease

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dDY0Q TIL that Richard Feynman, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics, tried marijuana and ketamine in John Lilly's sensory deprivation tanks as a way to study consciousness.
XEjbj TIL that horses hide pain very well, almost too well, due to their nature as range prey that historically wouldn't show weakness to their predators
KOPNa TIL Earth is wider at the Equator, so to make a rotation in one 24-hour period, equatorial regions race nearly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) per hour. Near the poles, Earth rotates at a sluggish 0.00008 kilometers (0.00005 miles) per hour.
WkvY TIL that a man named Corey Taylor faked his death to get out of a Verizon cell phone contract
e665 TIL for upon their death, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona during Pearl Harbor may have their ashes placed within the ship, among their fallen comrades.