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TIL When you stop smoking weed, you're going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep for the next 2-7 weeks.

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NXVWb TIL that a riot broke out on St Scholastica Day, 10 February 1355, when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in the Swindlestock Tavern. Around 30 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university.
P1lvZ TIL Chinese ghost weddings marry one deceased person to a living person, or two deceased people. They exist to make it so your dead loved ones won't be lonely in the afterlife. Ceremonies can include typical customs like matchmakers to dowries.
6bOw TIL The reason Harry Truman was selected to be the Vice President under Roosevelt was because when he ran the Senate “Truman Committee”, it found so much corruption and waste, he saved the government $10-15 billion. Several times the cost of the entire $2 billion Manhattan project.
awrvo TIL about Yoshio Nakamura. An American Citizen of Japanese decent who was sent to an interment camp during WWII but enlisted in the army and fought in Italy to break the German line. He used his GI bill to earn a degree to become a teacher but school districts wouldn't hire him due to his heritage.
6EbBQ TIL that the income and resource stability level of a man is inversely proportional to his preference for breast size. The richer a man is, the more he likes small breasts.