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TIL that Ontario’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, it’s illegal to sell wild game in restaurants. Some pass off game such as duck, boar or deer as wild when listing it on a menu — but if it’s for sale in a restaurant, it’s farmed.

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8elO8 TIL Doug Henning, the New Age illusionist from the 70s, was diagnosed with liver cancer. Despite graduating with honors with a degree in science and psychology, he believed that meditation and a diet of nuts and berries would save him. He was dead within 6 months, at the age of 52.
WaR9 TIL of “Reichstag fire”, a term used to denote a calamitous event staged by a political movement, orchestrated in a way that casts blame on their opponents, causing the opponents to be viewed with suspicion by the public. The Reichstag fire was seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
d8dL9 TIL studies have found coffee drinkers (those who drink 3-5 cups per day) have a more “efficient” brain than those who don't drink coffee. MRI scans found coffee drinkers have quicker connectivity in the cerebellum, the right precuneus, and the right insular.
LkxdV TIL the Louvre put up signs in Mandarin (and only in Mandarin), telling Chinese tourists not to shit on the floor. Tourist sites in Egypt face similar problems, as does Disneyland Shanghai
Bmmy TIL: Research from Moscow State University & the University of Iowa discovered that crows exhibit strong behavioral signs of analogical reasoning—the ability to solve puzzles like “bird is to air as fish is to what?” Analogical reasoning only develops in humans between the ages of three & four.