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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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DQPAg TIL amputees who experience Phantom Itching where their limb use to be often use a mirror and scratch the opposite limb to trick the brain into satisfying the urge.
OjgL TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if every American gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”
7roBx TIL that originally (up until 1804) electors could cast two votes for two different U.S. candidates for President, and the first runner-up presidential candidate became Vice President to guard against electoral gamesmanship.
ANQjo TIL of Dan Black, a UK man who became paralyzed and fundraised for an experimental stem cell treatment to help him walk again. Upon reaching his a goal, he heard of a young boy who also needed the treatment. He donated all of the funds to the young boy and Dan Black still remains paralyzed today.
9YPdG TIL in 1859 an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. The conflict escalated to involve 461 Americans & 14 artillery against 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig