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TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.

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GAAMQ TIL that the only Cat successfully launched into space was Félicette, she was launched on 18 October 1963 from the Algerian desert.
9wZN6 TIL that in Culver City, California in 1990, Little Red Riding Hood was pulled from the recommended reading list for first graders because the heroine had a bottle of wine in the basket that she brought to her grandmother's house.
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XE5yP TIL that the country of Iraq takes its name from the 5000+ year old Sumerian city of Uruk, home of the legendary King Gilgamesh