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TIL smoking weed can cause anxiety disorders.

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4lGJ TIL that when Ian McKellen, the actor who went on to play both Magneto and Gandalf, came out as gay in the ’80s, his aim was to get rid of a law in the UK called Section 28.
JYlM1 TIL in WW2 a female feudal lord took control over 275 Nazis to force them to fix up her island after German occupation ended in Sark
9Y9rM TIL that Frank Abignale, who was a master conman and subject of the 2002 movie Catch Me If you Can (played by Leonardo di Caprio), once collected money by putting an out-of-service sign over a collection box. He was surprised that it worked, stating later, "How can a drop box be out of service?"
M7yg8 TIL that sperm whales can generate sounds up to 230 decibels - far beyond the fatality threshold for humans.
vZjx TIL that 74 soldiers marched across a bridge at the same rate of the bridges natural frequency (mechanical resonance). This eventually caused the bridge to collapse and ever since the incident, soldiers have been ordered to “break step” when crossing bridges.