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Does the drug commonly known as "bath salts" make you particularly crave the taste of human flesh? There's no scientific evidence that it does. But it certainly could lead to a bit of cannibalism as a side effect.

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RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
mxXkE TIL metal detectorists searching on a farmer's property for a legendary $23 million treasure hoard were only allowed to look for 10-15 hours one day a year after harvest. It took them 30 years to find it.
mxkry TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.
nbRb TIL in 1984 Rick Gibson was given 2 human 10-week-old fetuses which had been dehydrated for 20 years. Gibson rehydrated then freeze-dried them and attached them as earrings to a female mannequin head. The sculpture was titled Human Earrings. As a result, Gibson was expelled from Goldsmiths College.
BrYeK TIL that in a "computational data-centric analysis" of the most significant figures in history "adjusted for recency bias", Ronald Reagan was ranked 32nd, above Paul the Apostle, Genghis Khan, Thomas Edison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Galileo, and Buddha