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TIL Bruce Lee used edible Marijuana on a regular basis

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BrAAy TIL in 2003, Disney tried to trademark the phrase “Día de los Muertos”, the name of the Mexican national holiday, Day of the Dead. After significant backlash, Disney withdrew their application to the USPTO within a week.
VBG8B TIL That in the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly surrendered the Ring to Bilbo as reward for winning a Riddle Game. However, as Tolkien conceived LOTR, he realized that the Ring's grip on Gollum would never permit him to give it up willingly. Bilbo steals the ring in the 2nd edition.
E1A7o TIL that Charles Darwin's children left doodles all over the original "On the Origin of Species" manuscript.
W70n4 TIL: That cowboys and native Americans used to (and some still do) hunt raccoons in order to extract their penis bones in order to use them for toothpicks or as pipes for smoking
e0YY6 TIL some animals can be made from just one parent. For example, the Komodo dragon, only has a mother. Asexual reproduction, the most primitive method of reproduction, involves a single parent and produces a clone, an organism that is genetically identical to the parent.