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TIL 35 Restaurants In China Were Busted or Under Investigation For Dosing Food With Opium Poppy In Order To Get Customers Hooked

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pYG4O TIL there’s a breed of cat called the Lykoi (Greek for “wolf”). They lack undercoats, the result of a naturally-occurring genetic mutation in feral cats, which along with sparse rear guard hair and a unique hair coloration makes them look like werewolves.
yQKd8 TIL that a polar bear won't set off an infrared motion detector.
OEDe TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
JYwBk TIL that singer R Kelly is illiterate
w0W1 TIL while Alfred Hitchcock was filming ‘The Pleasure Garden’, an actress refused to enter the water because she was on her period. It was the first time Hitchcock heard about menstruation, and a cameraman had to explain to him what she meant.