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TIL a Chinese restaurant owner admitted to serving opium-laced noodles to hook customers into coming back for more.

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65AW TIL that James Jameson of Jameson Whiskey once arranged for cannibals to eat a slave girl in front of him, whilst he sketched the whole incident.
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