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TIL mindfulness teachers get angry too

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neXgb TIL of Dmitry Argarkov who scanned a credit card agreement, edited it, and returned it with a 0% interest rate and no limit in the new terms. The bank signed and approved without reading and a judge held them to it.
V7Pm TIL that the Romans were defeated in 67BC by King Mithridates of Pontus. They ate the hallucinogenic honey that was left behind as a beguiling gift by the Pontian army and were defeated while tripping balls.
xj75 TIL that the staple ingredient in most Italian foods is not native to Italy nor Europe. The tomato originated in Mexico.
0oMj TIL Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for his cure for Syphilis. He’d treat it by giving the patient Malaria.
6EvEX TIL that the king of Belgium enslaved African men to force them to harvest rubber for European tires. If the harvest was short their wives and children were murdered and their hands and feet were given to the male workers as punishment.