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TIL In 2008, a British man was arrested for drug possession in Dubai after 0.003 grams of marijuana were detected in his shoe.

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6Jpm TIL that New Zealand’s two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) didn’t have official names until 2009
9Yd57 TIL Thomas Jefferson had a Shetland sheep that he kept on the White House lawn described as "this abominable animal". It would attack people who took shortcuts across the lawn, injuring a few people and killing a small boy.
KYD7J TIL in 1997, rock band Cheap Trick re-recorded their second LP "In Color," with Steve Albini (of Nirvana's "In Utero" and Big Black fame) producing, seeking a heavier and rawer style. It was never released.
VGaB TIL A woman named Augusta Ada King is regarded as the first computer programmer for her notes in the 1800’s on using computers to compute algorithms.
jNKeX TIL of the "The Norwegian Rocket Incident", when in 1995, Russian officials briefly misinterpreted a Norwegian scientific rocket to be a nuclear attack. It showed the dangers of accidental nuclear war even when the threat of military confrontation between the US and Russia was at an all-time low.