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TIL North Korea is manufacturing and distributing meth amphetamine; in the country itself it is used as a substitute for medicine

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9wQbQ TIL that basketball player Wilt Chamberlain had a boxing match scheduled against Muhammad Ali, and it was set to go ahead, until the owner of the LA Lakers paid Chamberlain more money to call it off.
4kDjX TIL the most common threshold for megafauna is as low as 45kg/100lb
NWpe TIL Johnny Carson once joked on The Tonight Show about a nonexistent toilet paper shortage which led to eventual panic buying leaving store shelves empty causing a real shortage that lasted weeks
y1ka TIL George Washington had a massive chain strung across the Hudson River in order to keep to British from sailing upriver. Each link weighed 100+ pounds.
LQ5KP Today I learned psychologists actually took a 12 year old paralyzed kid from his parents and dropped him into a deep swimming pool because they thought he was faking his illness (M.E).