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TIL King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He refused to buy, and paid the chemist an annual salary to never sell his weapon to anyone else.

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yQdoJ TIL we treat our future selves like another person. When we are asked to think about ourselves, certain parts of our brain light up. When we are asked to think about our future selves, different areas of our brain light up, The same areas we use to think about other people.
n66G TIL that ramen, a notorious “poor person” food, was invented by a very wealthy person. He was also said to eat “unhealthy” chicken ramen every single day since its invention until he died (at age 96, 17 years above the average male Taiwanese lifespan) His 105th birthday is today.
9ww8B TIL about kleptoparasitism, an opportunistic feeding strategy where one animal deliberately steals food from another.
VB1v0 TIL Hindu Balinese place little baskets of flowers, food, incense and money everywhere as offerings to the gods (Canang Sari) which also serve to feed stray animals
oMwL TIL Walt Disney bought his parents a house with a broken furnace which was inadequately fixed by Studio repairmen, causing his mother to die of asphyxiation