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TIL water buffalo that graze on opium poppies become “docile as lambs” and withdrawn from the herd. After the harvest, they suffer from tremors and convulsions - withdrawal symptoms

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pYw5G TIL that when they test DNA from hair, they actually analyse the root skin attached to the hair. The hair itself contains no DNA and is useless in the analysis.
6ED9w TIL that Thomas Edison would hire thugs to destroy movie sets because he felt that he owned the rights to any and all film made since he filed the first patent for the motion picture camera
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