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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is still the official monarch of Jamaica and has been since 1962

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RlDw TIL that although cannabis is illegal in Australia there’s a town in New South Wales revolving almost only around weed selling and weed tourism where cannabis is both sold and grown openly.
e0VY6 TIL that during WWII, japanese opened a camp called unit 731 to develop biological weapons. They drove all kinds of horrible and inhuman experiments on war prisoners and Chinese civilians (Killing 10 000 and 400 000 while testing weapons). Americans gave them immunity in exchange of the results.
xVkMk TIL in 1975, Indian intelligence agency warned the Bangladeshi president about a possible coup. He ignored their advice by saying "These are my own children and they will not harm me. Seven months later he was assassinated by some military officers, plotted by his closest political associates.
e0W7L TIL The word 'Quarantine' originates from 14th century Italy, meaning '40 days'. Italy literally gave us the Quarantine, again.
DQeV TIL that the only US Supreme Court Justice to ever have been impeached, Samuel Chase, was impeached on the grounds that his political views were allegedly affecting his court rulings.