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TIL that Uruguay is the ONLY country with fully legalized posession, sale, transportation and cultivation of Marijuana

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E1yXp TIL the odds of having the same finger print as someone else is 1 in 64 billion. Because there have been over 108 billion people to have ever lived on earth, many people, either dead or alive, will have to have the same fingerprint
MePv7 TIL in the past, compressed blocks of dried tea were used as currency
YxOv TIL that there is a protein in the human body named after Pikachu. It transmits electrical impulses from the eyes to the brain. (crosspost r/pokemon)
9wgrr TIL before Apple, Steve Wozniak invented a device to make free long distance calls, that he once used to nearly get ahold of the Pope, posing as Henry Kissinger.
oErW TIL During WWII Unit 731 of Japan who were responsible for some of the most brutal experimentation on captives were secretly given immunity by the US in exchange for their data obtained through human experimentation.