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

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LQdB0 TIL that botanically, bananas are considered berries, but strawberries are not (because their seeds are on the outside)
grE09 TIL artist Damien Hirst created the most expensive work of art by a living artist. "For the Love of God" is a skull made out of platinum, human teeth & 8,601 diamonds. It cost 15 million pounds & took 18 months to make, completed in 2007.
4kvaX TIL that the leading cause of death around the globe is coronary artery disease, which occurs when the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart become narrowed
R7wg8 TIL that in 2006, a Norwegian woman living in an apartment above a pub, suddently found her kitchen tap pouring beer, and not water, due to a plumbing error in the pub.
LQN9P TIL that most states in the USA have an official state fossil, for example the Stegosaurus stenops for Colorado.