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TIL if the bombs in the cafeteria of Columbine High School had exploded, they would have killed 488 students.

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NvkJ TIL in order for Coca-Cola to continue to exist, the company had to receive a special exception from the Drug Enforcement Agency to allow them to import coca leaves from Peru and Bolivia in huge amounts. In return, the cocaine in the leaves has to be extracted only to be used to create anesthesia.
wMlE TIL that Cheech Marin beat both Anderson Cooper (Yale graduate) and Aisha Tyler (Dartmouth graduate) at Celebrity Jeopardy.
x6XKk TIL Hunter S Thompson used cocaine up to 11 times a day and had it with his sausage and eggs for breakfast
KO0R9 TIL turf grass is probably the most resource and labor intensive "crop" in the US, consuming more fresh water than the seven greatest water-using crops combined.
9YOv6 TIL of Sir Douglas Mawson, an Australian who led an expedition to the south pole in 1912. He went on a 3-man sledding team. On the way back to the main base, his two teammates died and most of the equipment was lost. He continued the final 100 miles back alone and survived falling down a crevasse.