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TIL: Bolivia is the only country where cocaine is truly legal and even has a cocaine bar where you can order actual coke with your cocktail

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Br9Lb TIL Roughly 100,000,000,000 cells die each day in our body and are replaced by other cells. It's not uncommon for your body to replace an equivalent to its mass each year. The process is called Apoptosis, or "Programmed Cell Death" and plays an important role in preventing cancer.
M7L9A TIL about Mike Millard, a legendary concert bootlegger. He would pretend to be handicapped in order to sneak in his recording equipment on his wheelchair.
L1PV TIL the “Immortal German Alchemist”, The Count St. Germain was said to never have appeared over the age of 40 in his some 100 year documented activity in Europe and had ties to the Rosicrucians, Knights Templar, Illuminati, Freemasons, and the Order of the Golden Fleece.
aa8y TIL the average black-market price of an AK-47 worldwide is $534. In certain areas in Africa, prices of AK-pattern rifles can be as low as $30. It is estimated that up to 100 million Kalashnikov assault rifles are still in use today.
4Dy5 TIL that in the ancient Persian Empire, an idea was debated twice: sober and drunk. The idea first had to sound good in both states of mind before being considered a good idea