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TIL - Both of Jack Black’s parents were satellite engineers, his mother having worked on/with the Hubble Space Telescope

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neRdY TIL Britain had become the biggest drug dealer ever by the turn of the 20th century; at the expense of China which had developed the biggest drug addiction problem ever. In 1906, 23.3% adult Chinese men were addicted to opium.
LQNmV TIL that some countries imposed a Beard Tax and a token was required to be carried in public to show that it had been paid.
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