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TIL that adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.

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v1VQK TIL that Gordon Ramsay has chosen not to give his children a large inheritance, does not take them to expensive restaurants (not even his own), and does not allow them to sit in first class on planes so that they are not spoiled.
kJayB TIL a woman was convicted of blasphemy in Austria, and the European Court of Human Rights upheld this conviction in 2018.
J7Vk TIL the letter ‘Q’ was illegal in Turkey until last month
5Vo6R TIL a rose bush can change color due to grafting. Often, any color of rose is grafted onto a hardier rootstock, like the Dr. Huey variety. The grafted bush can die, and the rootstock grows again and produces a dark red rose, no matter what color the bush was before.
knYd TIL that a building called Blok P once housed 1% of Greenland’s population. It was advertised to tourists as “so depressing that it’s almost an attraction in itself.”