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TIL To produce a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of pure cocaine requires about a ton of fresh coca leaf

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ANP8B TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.
5YNBp TIL the waterbed was invented by Scottish physician Neil Arnott in 1833 to “prevent bedsores in invalids”
kOVne TIL "Mudlarks" were folks who scavenged the muddy rivers in London in the 18th & 19th centuries at low tide in order to sell anything they found.
eN9D TIL: One night in 1998, activists from the Animal Liberation Front crept onto a farm in the New Forest, England. Their goal was to save a group of 6,500 minks. No sooner were they freed than the minks went on a rampage. Guinea pigs, cats, chickens, and water voles all fell victim to the mink hordes.
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