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TIL: Some people taste soap when they eat Cilantro.

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wond1 TIL that Pope Gregory IX issued a Papal Bull declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit, which subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe producing an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats, which would otherwise have been hunted by the dead cats.
v1MnK TIL about Chuck E Cheese's origin story. He grew up in an orphanage and did not know his own birthday. They celebrated birthdays on a weekly basis at the orphanage where they enjoyed pizza and sang "Happy Birthday", his favorite song. He's also really good at playing Pong and won $50 for it once.
0w75R TIL Adam Sandler's film "Jack and Jill" is considered one of the worst movies ever made.
j65oX TIL that Spanish dollars, also known as pieces of eight (of pirate fame), were legal tender in the United States until 1857.
eBKJ TIL that weed and hops are from the same plant family