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TIL absinthe, a spirit made with wormwood, has been banned across Europe in the early 20th century because of association with mental illness

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mYnY TIL that in 1974, an artist allowed her audience to use 72 objects (ranging from a feather to a loaded gun) on her however they wanted and she wouldn’t react for 6 hours. The audience became aggressive, and when the six hours were up, everyone ran away to avoid confrontation.
Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.
aYOo TIL that China goes through 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks a year. 20 million trees are cut every year to meet Chinese demand for chopsticks.
NQvM TIL Out of 10.7 million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World, only 388,000 were shipped to North America (-6%).
AD6e7 TIL Not only is field hockey the national sport of Pakistan, but the national team has won four Hockey World Cup championships, eight gold medals at the Asian Games, and the only Asian team to win the Champions Trophy (three wins).