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TIL a collector of opium antiques accidentally became addicted to opium

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OGJJa TIL Kiviak is a traditional food from Greenland that is made of little seabird packed and fermented in a seal skin. Up to 500 whole birds, beaks and feathers included, are packed into the seal skin and then hidden in a heap of stones and left to ferment over the course of three months.
7r5rL TIL that when nazis invaded Greece, the staff of the Archaeological Museum in Athens buried all statues and artifacts in concrete fortified trenches stretching from the basement. The nazis found an empty museum. No one gave away the secret.
BrgvL TIL EA charged gamers real money to fill up their gas tanks in Need For Speed: No Limits.
R5kBa TIL New York and The New Jersey Colonies were included in the Dominion of New England established just before (and ended soon after) the Glorious Revolution.
oRl9W TIL: It's called a Garter snake, not a 'Gardener' snake.