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TIL that a man waited 20 hours to buy pot legally in WA. The news filmed the sale and the man lost his job.

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a8Bno TIL Rick Marin from the New York Times called the record label Sub-Pop and asked Megan Jasper for a lexicon of Grunge slang. She kept giving him progressively more ridiculous terms as a joke thinking he would call her out on it, but instead he believed every word of it and published them.
Jk48 TIL that to shoot the candlelight-only scenes in Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick used rare f/0.7 camera lenses manufactured by Carl Zeiss for NASA. Zeiss made only ten of the lenses; he sold three to Kubrick and six to NASA, who used them in the Apollo program to photograph the dark side of the moon.
l7DAG Today I learned that the Library of Congress added, “Spy Kids” (2001) into their national film registry as a, “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” movie.
5EM9 TIL 2,4-dinitrophenol, a widely used chemical in industry, is also a powerful weight loss agent with severe side effects. In some people, it can burn food energy so fast that their body isn’t able to expel the heat quickly enough, thus causing them to die by literally burning from the inside out.
Zvyv TIL the Swedish soft drink Julmust is so popular during the holidays that the it often causes Coca-Cola consumption to drop by 50%