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Til the opium wars started because China wanted to stop the drugs coming in

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QNgy9 TIL: A 2013 survey of 10,000 individuals found that men are more likely than women to fall in love "at first sight" at 48% to 28%. Dr. Bruns, stated that there is a heroic, romantic appeal of rushing into a relationship. Unfortunately, this endorphin fueled rush also results in 33% of affairs.
WkW84 TIL actor Dan Richter, the lead man-ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey", had the status of a “legal” drug addict in England, and injected a doctor-prescribed combination of heroin and cocaine up to 7 times daily. When he needed additional stimulation, he always had state-supplied crystal meth on hand
5Y81Q TIL the Chinese phrase 日本鬼子 - Rìběn guǐzi, meaning "Japanese Devils" can be pronounced in Japanese as Hinomoto Oniko, which resembles a girl's name. Consequently, users of the Japanese imageboard 2channel created an anime character for the phrase.
XEPlk TIL that an excavation of ancient Babylon revealed evidence that Babylonians were making soap around 2800 B.C. They were the first one to master the art of soap making. They made soap from fats boiled with ashes. Soap was used in cleaning textile manufacture and medicinally for at least 5000 years.
b6BLZ TIL about Rie Fujii, a Japanese woman who abandoned her two young children (ages 15 months and 3 months) for 10 days in an apartment in Calgary so she spend time with her boyfriend.