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TIL In Namibia, white people make up 6% of the population and owns 90% of the wealth

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W7jv9 TIL The first American woman to vote was Lydia Taft. In 1756, she received the legal right to vote at a town meeting in Massachusetts
oBPn8 TIL that in 2008 an app called "I Am Rich" was released for a day. It had absolutely no purpose, cost $999.99, and eight people bought it just to show that they could afford it.
8nk4 TIL marijuana levels in the bloodstream do not match levels of cognitive impairment, making it difficult to test reliably for driving while stoned
yVWAV TIL People produce endocannabinoids – similar to compounds found in marijuana – that are critical to many bodily functions such as learning and memory, emotional processing, sleep, temperature control, pain control, inflammatory and immune responses, and eating.
6E0eY TIL the domain name ".tv" is actually the country code domain for Tuvalu, a country in Polynesia. Due to its popularity from its similarity to 'television', the Tuvalu government sought to capitalize on it and nearly 10% of its revenue comes from royalties from .tv addresses.