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TIL White Clover can be used as a tobacco alternative

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D1kKY TIL of the Clacton Spear. A wooden spear tip that survived intact for 420,000 years but has broken several times since its discovery in 1911.
PYgjn TIL that during a Communist Party conference in 1937, following a speech by Stalin, the audience began to clap and carried on for 11 minutes, with no-one daring to be the first to stop. The first person to stop was a paper factory director who was arrested that night and sent to prison for 10 years.
xVvV1 TIL Okinawans in Japan are the only human population to have a self-imposed habit of calorie restriction. They believe in eating until they are 80 percent full and has the world's highest proportion of centenarians
ZogB TIL The creator of the LSD discovered its hallucinogenic properties after accidentally absorbing the drug through his gloves, causing him to trip balls
1aJyX TIL There is only one U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s: Montpelier, Vermont