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TIL Queen Victoria's private doctor prescribed marijuana to relieve her menstrual cramps, describing it as "one if the most valuable medicines we possess" in 1890.

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1ap9D TIL: the case of Philip Clay, adopted as a child, deported as an adult; Clay ends up committing suicide. There are thousands of people like him, adoptees who did not know they were still not legally us citizens because their adoptive families never filled out the paperwork.
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