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TIL: The National Institute on Drug Abuse inadvertently led to the discovery of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) trying to prove the dangers of marijuana. ECS serves a vital purpose for our health and well-being because it regulates key aspects of our biology. It explains why pot works medicinally.

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Ro97 TIL Bryan Cranston directed an episode of The Office (S09E04: Work Bus).
PwpE TIL that cheating and creating cheats for online games is officially a crime in south korea
abEL TIL that the FBI learned two of its informants were planning to murder a rival gangster. The FBI didn’t intervene, and the man was murdered. The FBI then stayed silent when four innocent men were convicted of the crime. By the time the truth was revealed, two of the four men had died in prison.
GYW41 TIL the top flying ace for the United States during World War II was Dick Bong, who shot down 40 Japanese aircraft.
ZByp TIL the Pentagon was constructed with twice the number of bathrooms needed for the number of employees because segregated Virginia at the time required separate facilities for “white” and “colored” persons.