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TIL Canada’s decriminalization of marijuana bill in 2002 was scrapped because the DEA threatened to slow trade on the US-Canada border

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R7vVl Today I learned about the Catatumbo lightning in Venezuela, a weather phenomenon that causes up to 280 lightning strikes an hour for about 150 days out of the year.
57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
69olQ TIL, the 1915 graduating class at West Point is called "the class the stars fell on" because 59 of 164 graduates attained the rank of general.
1av9d TIL that Pope John Paul II was a polyglot. He spoke 12 languages; Polish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Esperanto. He used 9 as Pope. He learned them in 1938, just before the Nazis occupied Poland.
10BO TIL most predators have eyes facing forward while most prey have eyes on the sides of their head