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TIL “Scientific” tests to determine if Marijuana kills brain cells actually asphyxiated test subjects causing brain damage due to lack of oxygen, not because of the marijuana.

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yAgv TIL parts of France were so devastated in WWI they were declared permanently uninhabitable: zone rouge.
D1jrD TIL that moose can not only swim as fast as 6mph (3 times faster than the average human) but also dive up to 5m (according to some sources) and hold their breathe for about a minute.
LxmV TIL in 2004 van Gogh’s great-grandnephew, Theo, was murdered for making a film about violence against women in Islam. He was shot more than 8 times, cut in the throat to decapitate him, stabbed in the chest and stabbed with another knife attaching a note that threatened Western countries & Jews.
VB1DZ TIL that badminton actually came from expatriate officers of British India, and used to be called “Poonah”!
N7bR1 TIL - The inventor of the shiftless and seemless CVT (continuously variable transmission) was in fact Leonardo Da Vinci.