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TIL in the fiscal year of 2014, the DEA spent an average of $4.20 per marijuana plant they uprooted.

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b9dNp TIL that dogs have evolved to participate in the oxytocin loop with us, the gaze-affected hormone responsible for bonding in human relationships, particularly with babies.
nePw7 TIL Business Insider in the US made the claim that Stephen Hawking if he was a British citizen, he would have been left to die by the NHS. Stephen Hawking rebutted and stated the only reason he was alive at that time was because of the NHS and reminded them that he was English.
m1EBp TIL about The Musalman, the world's only newspaper which is entirely written by hand instead of being typed. This Chennai-based Urdu-language newspaper has been circulated since 1927 and is 4 pages long.
16pgW TIL about the Hessdalen lights: These are unexplained lights that have been observed in the Hessdalen valley in Norway since the 1940s. The lights appear as floating orbs and have been witnessed by thousands of people over the years.
xxJ1 TIL Lisa Lampanelli once counted 44 protestors from the Westboro Baptist Church at her show so she donated $44,000 to a gay rights charity in their name