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TIL that 789 grams of 2,700-year-old marijuana were found in a Chinese tomb in 2008.

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EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
9Ya6p TIL PEZ Candy was invented in Vienna, Austria by Eduard Haas III as an alternative to smoking.
1JWd TIL inn WW2 the Nazis had a wooden airfield in Northern France, the British knew about it. Being British they let them build it and then dropped a wooden bomb on it!
GBeN TIL a father once jumped off a 100 foot bridge holding his 2 toddler sons after getting into an argument with their mother. The father was killed on impact, BOTH boys survived.
mxErO TIL there is a fierce rivalry between the neighbouring English counties of Cornwall & Devon, with each claiming to have invented 'pasties', and each insisting the other is wrong regarding whether to put jam or cream first on scones.