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TIL that in 2001, Portugal enacted a nationwide law decriminalizing all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. In 2009, the conservative Cato institute called the policy a “resounding success.”

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9YwMB TIL that all US astronauts since 2011 have to speak Russian.
R7AX9 TIL starting firefighters can earn as little as $12.95 for literally risking their lives every single day.
VMpLD TIL most avocados are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926
jLwj TIL that Ian Fleming wanted his protagonist to be ‘an extremely dull, uninteresting man’ and when trying to name him, thought that 'James Bond’ was the “dullest name [he] ever heard”
ADvNd TIL of Pierre-Simon Laplace, often referred to as the French Newton, he is credited with translating the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus. Laplace was one of the first scientists to propose the existence of black holes and the theory of gravitational collapse.