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TIL that Iceland as a country smokes the most cannabis per capita than anywhere else, with 20% of the population considering themselves regular smokers.

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VM9GD TIL there is one prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials that is still living, Ben Ferencz, he turns 101 in March.
4XeKR TIL Henry Ford introduced a $5 min wage. The move made national news as it constituted double the industry norm—and double the pay of most of Ford’s own employees. He also reduced the working day from 9 hours to 8 —becoming one of the first companies in America to adopt the 40-hour work week.
xdv5 TIL the Big Bang Theory was originated by a Belgian Catholic priest, Georges Lemaitre.
WOvd TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.
b69ka TIL that US pedestrian fatalities are up, mostly because SUVs are twice as likely to kill and an increasing no. of US vehicles are SUVs.