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TIL in North Korea marijuana is recommended as a healthier, cheaper option to tobacoo

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DQEgP Today I learned that from 1972 to 1994 the Office of Technology Assesment existed and functioned similarly to the FDA until it was defunded.
GA5OE TilL about Peter Hagendorf a German mercenary who fought during the 30 years war and kept a diary. In it he casually describes the death of several of his children being assaulted and robbed by peasants and abducting women.
Z8oKv TIL Veerys can predict how bad a hurricane season will be more accurately than meteorological models. And they can do it months in advance.
OoWZe TIL that many clock faces that use Roman numerals show "4" as IIII instead of IV.
8eEDb TIL that Charles Darwin often gave his old papers to his children for them to doodle on. Thus, much of what survives of his original Origin of Species manuscript represents the best of his children's writing and drawings, rather than the best of his work.