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TIL that while marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, cocaine is listed as a schedule 2 and therefore able to be used pharmaceutically.

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lokXG TIL Chris Evans portrayed a DC comic book character between his Human Torch and Captain America roles
9YMVr TIL that depression can be a symptom of untreated or poorly-managed ADHD. Chronic under-stimulation can lead to depression as "the ADHD nervous system feeds on interest and challenge".
yVOgv TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published.
4kAv5 TIL: Marina Oswald Porter, JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswalds wife, is still alive and living in Texas
VMlKB TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress voted 388-1 to declare war on Japan. The sole dissenter was Jeannette Rankin, a pacifist and the first woman elected to congress. She said of her decision ""I voted as the mothers would have had me vote."