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TIL 70% of millionaires do not consider themselves "wealthy"

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VBOwB TIL the reason cats like to eat spider plants is because they are mildly hallucinogenic to cats and cats like to get high
OdM4 TIL of the pastry known as a “Persian”. Available only in the Canadian city of Thunder Bay it’s recipe is a tightly guarded secret to the point that people don’t actually know what kind of berry is used for the topping.
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.
69b7Y TIL that Tooth Fairy payments to children tripled on a per tooth basis between 2011 and 2021.
OGb6 TIL that a species of bird, the European Magpie, is the only non-mammal to have ever passed a self-recognition test, and has a level of intelligence comparable to that of a chimpanzee.