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TIL That Portugal decriminalized, not “legalized”, drugs 12 years ago, and it’s working.

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n1v9 TIL That the French philosopher and mathematician Descartes was hired as a tutor by the Queen of Sweden, who insisted on philosophy lessons at 5 in the morning. Within a year of walking through the Swedish cold every morning, Descartes caught pneumonia and died.
9wWLB TIL the scientific name for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
e0rGJ TIL a study conducted by Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, found that in all five measures of penile dimensions homosexual men reported larger penises than heterosexual men.
Y761W TIL the number of enrolled college students in the US dropped by 14.4% from 2013 to 2023, and the decline is expected to get even worse starting in 2025 as lower birth rates lead to a big reduction in the college-age population
VM8rk TIL a group of Imperial Japanese Navy cadets planned to start a war with the United States in 1932 by murdering Charlie Chaplin, who was in the country at the time.