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TIL that Ireland accidentally legalised ecstasy, ketamine, and crystal meth for one day in 2015

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VB0a0 TIL the air quality in Delhi, India, is on average between 200-500 AQI (poor to hazardous) from October through February. The worst was on November 8th 2017 during the “Great Smog of Delhi” when the smog reached its peak at 999 AQI.
VB6nB TIL Two main populations of Dingos (West and East) do not share close ancestry and might represent separate waves of Humans bringing domesticated Dogs/Wolves into Australia 8,000 to 3,000 years ago.
LJM9 TIL that The Samurai was a Japanese series that was dubbed and aired in Australia, the first Japanese program to ever screen in the country. It became so popular that when lead actor Ose Koichi visited Melbourne, he was greeted by a crowd larger than that which had greeted The Beatles in 1964.
rRrae TIL that the first academic paper proposing edging as a way to battle premature ejaculation was written by a doctor whose last name was Semans.
Od7a TIL that in the old days (before 1960s or so) moviegoers would show up partway through a movie, watch it to the end, and then stay to watch the beginning, hence the phrase “This is where we came in…”