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TIL its NOT ACTUALLY LEGAL TO GROW UP TO 25 PLANTS IN ALASKA

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KY9JJ TIL the small town of Dalgety, population 252, was almost going to be Australia's capital, as it lead the first six-rounds of preferential voting during the election for a capital, only losing out on the final two rounds.
mdpx TIL that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were hemp farmers and preferred smoking the flower of the plant to using tobacco or alcohol
N8oe TIL an author was once challenged that he couldn’t make a good story from two bad ideas. The ideas given were “Lost roman legion” & “Pokémon”. The resulting book became an international best seller.
d85DE TIL of HMS Electra, a British WW2 destroyer that saved the three survivors of HMS Hood, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at the Battle of Kuantan, and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet, buying time for the crippled cruiser HMS Exeter to escape.
5V8ep TIL that humans glow in the dark, but the light is 1,000 times weaker than the human eye can perceive