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TIL Bruce Lee used edible Marijuana on a regular basis

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9wAkm TIL that low-income countries can borrow money from the IMF on concessional terms, which means there is a period of time with no interest rates, through the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), the Standby Credit Facility (SCF) and the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF).
PPgV TIL United States forests are growing rather than shrinking and have been since the 1940s
rRkvy TIL Eric Tigerstedt, the "Thomas Edison of Finland", was the first person to patent a "mobile phone", over a 100 years ago.
ZD7a TIL John Rabe, a member of the Nazi Party, prevented the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians at the hands of the Japanese by setting up a refugee zone under the Nazi flag.
6EQG7 TIL of Britain's ghost trains - rare train services in the UK which only see a couple of passengers every day. They're only there because closing lines and stations is difficult and costly, and rail companies would rather run infrequent services than go through the cumbersome process.