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TIL that cocaine only costs $700/kg to produce but sells in the US for $100/gram.

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n5bo TIL that in the Spring of 1976, groundskeepers at Anaheim stadium discovered hundreds of marijuana plants growing in the outfield, apparently left by thousands of Who fans who had attended a concert there in the offseason and scattered the seeds everywhere. Angels in the outfield indeed…
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