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TIL that in the late 1970’s it was completely legal to smoke marijuana in one’s home for personal use in Alaska.

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8wEX TIL an opposing witness in the Tipper Gore-instigated Senate hearing about so-called “porn rock”, Frank Zappa was asked how something as trivial as record-rating became the subject of a Senate inquiry. Zappa remarked, “A couple of blow-jobs here and there and Bingo! - you get a hearing.”
wLBa6 TIL eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruss, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have that origin.
WkrQo TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.
Wk7kL TIL the Creole pig of Haiti was deliberately exterminated in the 1980s to stop an outbreak of African swine fever. Peasants were provided with imported pigs from the U.S. as compensation, but this caused many of them to lose money as the American pigs were much more expensive to maintain.
e05mD TIL Only 29% of Americans realize that state funding for higher education fell by $9 Billion over the past decade