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TIL botox can inhibit empathy

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OoVmL TIL Oyster sauce was created when a Chinese man, who ran a stall selling oysters, accidentally left them cooking until it had turned into a thick gravy, which he sold as "Oyster Sauce" and led to him founding the now vast empire of Lee Kum Kee Chinese cooking sauces
9YaRp TIL in Ancient Egypt, cats were bred not as pets, but for ritual mummification. Puppy farms and other animal breeding programmes were a huge industry that provided a stock of animals to be killed and mummified as an offering to the gods and to keep the dead company
7ELX TIL wasabi was originally eaten with sushi to kill bacteria and parasites in the fish. Now with better sanitary conditions it’s not needed and eaten just out of habit
5VDD TIL that the Indian military has decided to use the world’s hottest chili (ghost chili) as a weapon
MGV7 TIL that Toto, the dog in The Wizard of Oz, was paid $125 a week while the Munchkin actors were only paid $50-$100 a week.