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TIL Marijuana doesn’t kill brain cells; a new study says it may help regrow them.

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ANoKg TIL Thatcher's Techbase is a mod for the video game Doom II where Margaret Thatcher, "one of humanity's greatest threats", rises from the dead, leading the player to descend into the tenth circle of Hell, the United Kingdom, in order to kill her and send her back to Hell.
pY4xp TIL that chickens are sometimes cannibals.
0wL7L TIL Thomas Marshall - Vice President under Woodrow Wilson - once fell for a false rumor that Wilson had died. He was at Church at the time he received the false news, and - believing he was now President - announced the news to his congregation. He only later found our that Wilson was still alive
R75Mj TIL Some 700,000 California women become pregnant each year, and over half of those pregnancies are unintended
xVDg1 TIL that, since ascending the throne, Queen Elizabeth does not accept any honorary degrees, as this would technically place her under the jurisdiction of the chancellor of whichever university had bestowed the degree, a position deemed unsuitable for a reigning monarch.