› added 5 years ago

197

TIL that cannabis grows in the wild in the Himalayan region of India and Nepal

Read more weedseedshop.com

via reddit.com

0wnGy TIL Scrooge's famous cry for the poor to die and thereby 'decrease the surplus population' was most likely a reference to Thomas Malthus who had written a generation before about the economic dangers of a lack of war, plague and famine.
wmj6 TIL lego used to give away a 14 karat gold lego brick to long serving employees in the 80s
E1ekx TIL : Another factor for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was the death of Chinese reformist Hu Yaobang and rapid market economic reform. and at their last stand, the protester sings the international socialist anthem to protest the Chinese leadership for betraying their original ideas.
QJJE TIL only 12% of the World’s population lives below the equator
jN7KM TIL After a paranoid letter from a fan, J. Edgar Hoover opened up an FBI file on Frank Sinatra that lasted 5 decades. In the file, Sinatra was accused of being a traveller who strived for racial tolerance and consorted with Communists & a mob associate. The file closed when Sinatra died in 1998.