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TIL The Italian military will start growing marijuana

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Jkg4 TIL In Japan 11/11 is celebrated as Pocky Day, a celebration of a popular candy
xKpo TIL a prize of one million dollars has been offered to anyone who can demonstrate that $7,000 audio cables are any better than ordinary cables
KVnw TIL in 1996, future pop singer James Blunt, then a British Army Officer deployed to Kosovo, was ordered by the NATO Supreme Allied Commander to forcibly take an airport occupied by Russian troops, but he refused, saying he was, “not going to start the Third World War.”
D1mer TIL we get more starlight during the day than at night
1a1DV TIL That on modern cars there is a little arrow on the fuel gauge to help you when it's time to refuel. It tells you which side of the vehicle has the fuel tank and filler cap.