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TIL Meghan Markle's nephew is a marijuana farmer in Oregon. To commemorate her wedding to Prince Harry, he developed a new marijuana variety called "Markle Sparkle".

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r57M TIL: Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest contributors to astronomy, couldn’t see the stars/planets due to small-pox he contracted as a child.
Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem
M7g80 TIL that author J.K. Rowling often relied on the fan-made Harry Potter Lexicon while writing the 'Harry Potter' books: "I have been known to sneak into an Internet café while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of 'Harry Potter', which is embarrassing."
5m6p TIL In Japan, houses depreciate like cars, and after as little as 20 years are considered worthless enough to be demolished and replaced.
PGEO TIL in Track and Field women are about as good as 13-14 year old boys in most events.