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TIL cats like to eat spider plants because they produce a compound that is thought to be related to opium and is mildly hallucinogenic

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0LyA TIL Francis Ford Coppola was so frustrated that studios wouldn’t let him make ‘Apocalypse Now’ that he threw his 5 Oscars out the window, mangling them. His mother got them replaced by the Academy by blaming the housemaid.
168p8 TIL what happened when the women of Towanda, Illinois were angry at their husbands for spending too much money on alcohol. They teamed up and attacked the local bar with hatchets. Each woman was fined $1.
Z85O4 TIL that sticks of butter come in two different shapes in the US based on which coast you are on.
yQyMw TIL about "A True Story", the first sci-fi novel written by a Greek-speaking Syrian in the 2nd century AD. This satire is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare.
oBQ8K TIL: the term Vitamin was coined by Casimir Funk, who discovered specific substances that cause special diseases. He originally called them “Vital Amines”, but once non-amine substances were discovered, he shortened the name and removed the “e” to avoid confusion.