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TIL that a placebo pill can work even when you know it’s a placebo

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QJQrM TIL that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world. Usually once every hundred years or so.
5YggP TIL The U.S. supplies 94 percent of the paid blood plasma used around the world and nearly 80 percent of the plasma centers in the U.S. are located in America’s poorer neighborhoods.
XEdYr TIL A copy of the death warrant for King Charles I is permanently on display in the British Monarch’s robing room to remind them of the consequences of interfering with Parliament
MeXwm TIL that in 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909.
WmZA TIL: Quoted over $60,000 for dental work, a man ended up traveling outside of the US to get the same treatment done for $3,000 from a dentist in Mexico.