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TIL The Shafer Commission, after 5 years of research, concluded that cannabis did not cause widespread danger to society. It recommended using social measures other than criminalisation to discourage use. The Nixon administration did not implement the recommendations.

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kJ0o5 TIL in 1925, wealthy SF businessman Herbert Fleishhacker built what was then the largest swimming pool in the US. Open to the public, it measured 150 x 1000 feet, held 6.5 million gallons, and could hold 10k people. The pool was filled with filtered seawater and heated to 72°. It closed in 1971.
ne49o TIL because Grover Cleveland served on two non-consecutive terms as President, people get confused about the number of men that served as US Presidents (44) vs the number of Presidential Administrations (45).
nW8dW TIL that the earliest known mention of bad breath occurs in ancient Egypt, where detailed recipes for toothpaste are made before the Pyramids are built. The 1550 BC Ebers Papyrus describes tablets to cure bad breath based on incense, cinnamon, myrrh and honey
A9En TIL: Patty Cannon was the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.
nemeB TIL former Ugandan president Idi Amin called himself: "His Excellency, President for Life... Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", in addition to his claim of being uncrowned King of Scotland.