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TIL botox can inhibit empathy
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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
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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
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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
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TIL that the Indian military has decided to use the world’s hottest chili (ghost chili) as a weapon
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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.