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TIL cheese triggers the same part of the brain as hard drugs

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Z6NR TIL a community of monks in the Austrian Alps in the 16th century invented a method of painting on canvas made from spider webs, and today less than 100 known examples exist.
b9XL0 TIL that a man living in a high crime area of Oakland, CA put out a tiny statue of Buddha in an attempt to stop illegal dumping on his property. The tiny Buddha began getting worshipped by local Vietnamese residents, and eventually crime in the area went down 82%
9YjxD TIL that on 19 January 2021, it snowed in the Sahara Desert; this is the fourth time this has happened in the last 50 years (1979, 2016 and 2018)
9jwr TIL that a cat once co-authored a physics paper. In 1975, a physicist had just finished writing a paper and was ready to publish but realized that he had used ‘we’ instead of 'I’ throughout, despite being the sole author. Not wanting to edit the paper, he listed his cat, Chester, as a co-author.
Lk56Q TIL There Are 328 Human People Named “Abcde” in the United States