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TIL Due to their intelligence, in some countries it is illegal to perform surgery on octopuses without anesthesia

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WeRA TIL “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” was the first film with a female lead character to top the annual box office since 1973’s “The Exorcist.”
VnGZ TIL that Julius Caesar suffered from chronic diarrhea. This prevented him from rising to greet the senate, which was deeply insulting to them and provoked his assassination.
49wa TIL that 52% of retired NFL players used prescription painkillers during football games, ¾ths of that said they abused them. 63% said the pills came from a non-medical source.
mxXlv TIL that the story about Ossip Bernstein playing chess to escape a bolshevik firing squad has only 1 source: Ossip himself - who first told the story to a friend after having fled to the UK.
1VR4 TIL that there is a ‘Museum of Failed Products’ in Ann Arbor, containing thousands of consumer products that never took off, including gems like Clairol’s A Touch of Yoghurt shampoo and Pepsi’s AM Breakfast Cola.