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TIL the US pressured India to make charas (hash) illegal in the 1980’s. The “war on drugs” was international.

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pYA5G TIL Dictator Muammar Gaddafi had a strange obsession with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He had Libya's most famous composer write her a song called "Black Flower in the White House." A photo album full of pictures of her was also found next to his bed by opposition fighters
e05e4 TIL that up until the end of 2013 russian soldiers used "foot wraps" instead of socks for 300 years. The rationale for using foot wraps was, that soldiers needed to be able to be fully dressed within 45 seconds.
pEgQ TIL that Johnny Cash’s estate once refused permission for his hit “Ring of Fire” to be used in a commercial for haemorrhoid cream.
gMAQA TIL Michael J. Anderson, the actor who played The Man from Another Place in Twin Peaks, worked as a computer technician on the ground support system for NASA’s space shuttle prior to his acting career.
XER4j TIL that in 1777 the Sultanate of Morocco was the first county to recognize the United States as an independent nation with a treaty of peace and friendship.