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TIL a rigorous experiment found that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably doesn’t exist and instead patients were experiencing a ‘nocebo’ effect.

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dDYm7 TIL in 1508, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz made his reputation as a criminal lawyer by his eloquent defense of a group of rats who were put on trial for destroying the barley crop of the province.
v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest
4XaKX TIL inmates at Riker's Island are paid $1 an hour to bury unclaimed bodies on Hart Island. I also learned that Hart Island is a place in NYC that used to house an insane asylum for women, city jails, and a "reformatory for vicious boys."
ep5Pb TIL that while there are theories, we do not know conclusively why ice is slippery
awyZZ TIL that despite holding the record for most best acting nominations (12) and wins (4), Katharine Hepburn never attended the Academy Awards ceremony, except in 1974 when she presented the Irving G. Thalberg award to a friend.