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TIL archaeologists working in a 2,500 y.o. Chinese cemetery unearthed charred incense burners and burnt stones that tested high for cannabinol, which is released when THC is burned. "Unlike many wild varieties, the cannabis smoked at the site [...] was pretty potent stuff."

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v59K TIL: If you’re an American and you give up your citizenship, you will be subject to U.S. tax on your worldwide income for any of the 10 years following expatriation in which you are in the U.S. for more than 30 days.
69vDW TIL an estimated 121K people in England died in 2022 awaiting treatment. That’s a death rate of 220 per 100K. Other estimates put that number even higher at 340K, or a rate of 618 per 100K.
9JgQ TIL the Monkees started out in a TV show about a band that tried to be as good as the Beatles but failed. They then started making albums in real life and outsold the Beatles.
lood1 The boomerang seems as Australian as ''Waltzing Matilda,'' but the oldest specimen may have come from a far distant part of the world -Poland. Scientists, there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of the curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.
0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.