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TIL Cambodians serve marijuana on pizza to get around drug laws

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pv9e TIL Hugh Jackman is the founder of a charity coffee company where 100% of the profits go to worldwide education, community development, and new business development.
9wBDB TIL Over 80% of the world has never taken a flight.
e0a7L TIL that a town in Nevada repels a semi-annual cricket invasion by blasting Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones. They were inspired by a story from the 1930s where a woman drove off crickets by using a Chinese gong, then tried rock music with her neighbours
67AJ TIL that when a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time due to the lack of light pollution.
X0wGr TIL: At least 1/3 of the US Cycling Team in 1984 LA Olympics were doped with a process called "blood doping". The American Cycling team won 9 medals.