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TIL - Portugal decriminalised drugs and replaced the penalty with therapy

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dbbK TIL: Chillean Sea Bass is just a fancy name that was made up in 1977 to get Americans to eat the Patagonian Toothfish.
mxLZo TIL Urine therapy was partly inspired by the Bible verse, "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well."
eR9g TIL Four months after approving the merger of Comcast and NBC in 2011, Meredith Attwell Baker, the FCC commissioner who approved the deal, was hired as a lobbyist by Comcast.
woYwJ TIL: The term ‘mountain dew’ was originally used to refer to a traditional distilled Irish alcoholic drink called Poitín.
EN07 TIL: An ‘extinct’ tree frog has been rediscovered in India after 137 years