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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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nWgXr TIL Jean-Luc Godard was friends with fellow directors and married couple, Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy. After Demy died in 1990, Godard only sent Varda the name of a restaurant where they all ate. In 2017 when Varda tried to reconnect with Godard he refused to see her and left her the same message.
a1ON TIL Vicodin is six times stronger than codine, which led to the name VI(roman numeral six)-condin
5YGKB TIL Ivy league schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD'd in 1889.
WkoL TIL that in 1946, the United States of America tried to buy Greenland from the Danish for $100,000,000.
kOk04 TIL that when President Millard Fillmore left office, he joined the New York militia and spent the rest of his life in it. He personally guarded President Lincoln’s funeral train when it passed through Buffalo.