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TIL the Convention on the High Seas was first signed in 1958 in Switzerland - a landlocked country

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16beW TIL that a lot of soldiers during WW2 were using and abusing hard drugs. Japanese, American and British forces consumed large amounts of amphetamines, but the Germans were the most enthusiastic early adopters, pioneering pill-popping on the battlefield during the initial phases of the war.
9bgD TIL in France, it is illegal for grocery stores to throw away edible food. Stores must donate edible, unused food to charity or facilities that process it into animal feed or compost.
pKJb TIL Detroit once had a tourist attraction more popular than the Statue of Liberty. The Ford Rotunda was built for the 1934 World’s Fair and was the fifth most visited site in the U.S. before burning to the ground in 1962
40gw TIL that Douglas Bader was a pilot who could sustain more G-Forces in combat because he had no legs.
wo5LE TIL that the earliest evidence of humans using psychedelics is a 9,000-year-old cave drawing in Algeria, which depicts a human-like figure with a bee head and mushrooms sprouting out of it.