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TIL that it's legal for 5 to 17 years old to consume alcohol at home in the UK.

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nnob TIL the gif with the laughing black man on a boat is actually the former president of Uganda laughing about the Holocaust.
Ajmo TIL of Tan, a patient in a French hospital who was cognizant and alert, but had paralysis in his right arm. He could only say the word, “tan”. When the man eventually died, Paul Broca examined his brain finding a lesion in the frontal lobe, a spot we now call Broca’s Area.
v1xQx TIL that meth was used as an antidepressant from the 1930s to the 1950s. A man named Gordon Alles patented the drug after he was injected with it and found that he became talkative and gained "a sense of well-being".
OpB7 TIL bees can also detect bombs. 50 bees only need 2-3 hours of training
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