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TIL PCP is a lower schedule drug than cannabis.

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kOnAE TIL that Atari Democrats were American Democratic legislators who suggested that the support and development of high tech and related businesses would stimulate the economy and create jobs in the 1980s and 1990s
m1JlY TIL that the India–Pakistan border is distinctly visible from outer space due to the numerous floodlights installed by India to facilitate its monitoring.
WZAA TIL That CAPTCHA is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
WaEN TIL in 1880 Alex Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also invented the photophone, a device that transmits sound using visible light. Although he called it his greatest invention, it wasn’t until the 1980s, over a century later, that it precursed fibre optics, the backbone of the modern Internet
VM9v8 TIL there have been only 2 fully intact Colossal Squid specimens that have been caught (in a condition good enough to study) and both Squids were found by the same man - John Bennett.