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TIL Scotland has a higher percentage of cocaine users than any other country

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nMnW TIL that upon creating the world’s first machine gun, Dr. Richard J. Gatling wrote that he did so “to reduce the size of armies, to reduce the number of deaths by combat, and to show how futile war is.”
l7EAa TIL in 2004, Microsoft sued a Canadian high schooler named 'Mike Rowe' over his domain name 'MikeRoweSoft.com'. He exchanged the domain for an Xbox and some additional compensation.
R5ZV6 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
jNkkE TIL that Luis Suárez, a famous Uruguayan football player, started training more ambitiously because his childhood crush moved to Barcelona (Spain) when he was 15. A few years later he was transferred to Europe and married her, and now plays for FC Barcelona
6YYW TIL there are three “original” citrus fruits: the citron, the pomelo, and the mandarine. All other citrus fruits are hybrids.