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TIL Some restaurants in China lace their food with opiates to keep customers coming back

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6E10X TIL about Risus sardonicus, a spasm of your facial muscles that make you look like you have a devious grin
Ayyo TIL Plato was originally called Aristocles, later acquiring the nickname Plato (meaning “broad”) because of his muscular physique.
NNKN TIL Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist (“God Hates Fags”) Church, was excommunicated from the church he founded shortly before his death, because he apparently had a change of heart about gay people, calling the gay activists living across the street from the church “good people”
oLNE TIL The novel Rum Diary(written in 1950s) was not released until 1998, when Johnny Depp discovered the unpublished manuscript in the basement of Hunter S. Thompson’s house who also wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
VMomp TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday. If there are 70 people in a room, there’s a 99.9% chance that 2 if them share a birthday. This is called the Birthday Problem or Birthday Paradox