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TIL mangoes can increase and prolong a cannabis high

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yQagl TIL in 2000, Canadian opposition leader Stockwell Day proposed referendums on internet petitions if they reached 350,000 signatures - or about 3% of the population. A comedian proposed that Stockwell Day legally change his first name to Doris. It got over 370,000 signatures
X8V8 TIL In 27 AD a wooden amphitheater collapsed in the ancient town of Fidenae which resulted in the death of 20000-50000 spectators. The Roman senate responded to this by raising building standards and banishing the creator of the theater, Atilius.
xOX7 TIL that in 1954, a covert US operation overthrew a democratically elected government in Guatemala for the benefit of an American fruit company.
gME69 Today I learned that in 2014 the US finished it’s largest dam removal in history on the Elwha river in Washington state. The once dammed reservoir of over 100 years, now flows freely and is once again booming with salmon, birds, moose, and even new beaches being formed by sediment!
5YVO9 TIL India still bans gay sex.