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TIL killing a panda can result in the death penalty in China

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7bnb TIL Salsa has surpassed ketchup to become the best selling condiment in America.
EgOOp TIL that the Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards has a pre-show ritual, where he must eat a shepherd’s pie. In 1989, when the band was set to perform in Toronto, Richards noticed that someone ate his pie. He refused to go on stage until a new pie was baked for him by the band’s culinary staff.
p8JrN TIL that in the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $1000 for each time he was stung during the bee scene. He walked away with $23000.
78ZOX TIL in 2007, a Sunni cleric in Egypt issued a fatwa encouraging women to breastfeed their male business colleagues so that the man would eventually become symbolically related to the woman, thereby precluding any sexual relations and the need for both sexes to observe modesty
YpngW TIL 250,000 of the 697,000 U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with a chronic unknown illness causing fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, rashes and diarrhea.