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

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rRWme TIL about Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
nKyW TIL John Wayne, after some phone complaints, went down and told Frank Sinatra to end a party held in the suite directly below his own. A bodyguard confronted him, Wayne looked at him & turned as if to leave, then backhanded him and smashed a chair over his head. The noise stopped.
78AM TIL that Rwanda is the only country in the world with a female majority in parliament
8avZP TIL a company in Japan developed a smoke alarm specifically designed for those with hearing impairments that uses wasabi odour instead of a loud noise. Tests on sleeping people with normal or no hearing show the device waking all of the subject in just two and a half minutes.
JYeaV TIL that Former President John Tyler tried to organize a peace conference in 1861 to avert a civil war. At the same time, his granddaughter was ceremonially hoisting the flag for the Confederate convention in Alabama.