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TIL The U.S. Government Sends a Handful of People 300 Joints per Month. The Program Was Shut Down in 1992, With Only 13 Patients Being Grandfathered In.

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dDEQB TIL - Arthur Galston, botanist, focused on soybean research. He discovered a chemical which allowed soybeans to flower quicker, but with too much of this chemical it caused the flower to wilt. The U.S. military became highly interested in this aspect of the research, and Agent Orange was born...
4XW0g TIL that Earnest Hemingway was a spy for the US against Cuba from 1942 through 1944
9M0Q TIL that there is a legend that the Ottoman Sultan intended to send £10,000 to Ireland to aid in the Starvation, but was stopped by Queen Victoria who had only sent £2000. Instead he sent £1000 and three ships full of food. A letter of thanks from the Irish is in the Ottoman Archives.
0Xnv TIL:A man injected himself with snake venom during most of his adult life to build up an immunity to a array of venomous snakes. He lived to age 100, and survived a reported 172 snake bites. He donated his blood to be used in treating snake-bite victims when a suitable anti-venom was not available.
KOAAw TIL that in the D.C. metro area, there is a carpooling practice known as "slugging." Strangers wait on a corner to be picked up by another stranger so that the driver can use the HOV lane. Oh and it's all for free.