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TIL the National Cancer Institute documented Cannabis killing cancer cells in numerous case studies.

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0nPj TIL Elon Musk originally came to America by showing up unannounced at a relatives house in Canada. He had to work odd jobs until he could afford to go to college, including cleaning boilers so filthy that he required a hazmat suit.
EXdp TIL there is an accurate 200 acre scale model of the entire Mississippi River Basin (over 800k acres) that was completed in 1966, and subsequently abandoned in 1993.
NG6M TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 6th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.
7rnJx TIL that elephants have enough intelligence and dexterity to create drawings with their trunks
D1wOr TIL about David Bowie’s 1983 interview with Mark Goodman where he calls out the lack of black artists featured on MTV