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TIL the Placebo effect also works on dogs.

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grWDy TIL that lipstick was first invented in ancient Sumerian and Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. Later, people wore lipstick for different purposes. The ancient Egyptians wore lipstick to show social status rather than gender, while the Chinese protected their lips.
rRYYo TIL Countdown, the iconic UK gameshow which has run for 35 years to date, went no further than a pilot in the US, apparently because producers thought its premise was too "brainy" to appeal to the general American public.
yQ1vM TIL the 2001 film Bend it like Beckham is the highest grossing film about soccer (football) ($76.6 million) and was a career making film for Kiera Knightly
JmRQ TIL of a material so black the human eye can’t decipher what it’s seeing.
R7NVw TIL that an Escher sentence is a comparative sentence that seems to make sense but doesn't on closer inspection: "more people have been to Russia than I have"