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TIL that Richard Gere has effectively been banned from Hollywood for speaking out against China

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wRM7 TIL that a placebo pill can work even when you know it’s a placebo
YXg7 TIL the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Angry Beavers, is one of the only cartoons where a clock on the wall–visible in most episodes–updates in real time.
Aobo TIL that Ted Gunderson, an ex-FBI Special Agent in Charge and executive level FBI director, believed that a shadow government controls the US government, sophisticated child trafficking rings involve persons in Congress, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of FBI provocateurs.
dayd TIL: The odds of flipping a coin is actually 51/49. The odds of spinning a US penny is actually 80/20.
yV7KX TIL about the Nail Men of Austro-Hungary and Germany, large wooden effigies people would pay to drive nails into, the most famous maybe 'Iron Hindenburg' adjacent to the Victory Column in Berlin.