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TIL that Rowlatt Act, an act to repress people's civil rights in India was passed by Sir Sidney Rowlatt in 1919. His son, Sir John Rowlatt became the architect of the Government of India Act, 1935, which is the skeleton on which the present day Indian Constitution was drafted

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DQDwV TIL about trickle-down economics of psychoactive mushrooms: shamans in Siberia would often partake of Amanita muscaria psychoactive mushrooms and shaman's urine was then drunk by others who wanted to experience the same, albeit milder, psychoactive effects
dDBNK TIL As a means of social control, Roman emperor Claudius enacted a ban on thermopolia, the taverns that were selling cheap fast food to the lower classes. He also banned the sale of boiled meat and hot water
MekQ7 TIL that toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that can alter human behaviour and reaction time causing an increasing in accidents and neurotic behaviour the parasite enters humans via a cat host in which it can sexually reproduce in the gut
78Kr TIL Rochus Misch, age 95, is the last surviving person to have known Hitler personally and witnessed his suicide. He worked as his personal bodyguard, courier and phone operator in the Fuhrerbunker, and still lives in the same house in Berlin where he moved upon his release from the Soviets in 1954
E1pMo TIL that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.