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TIL of Charlotte, a young girl who was experiencing 300 grand mal seizures a week until she was treated with marijuana. That specific strand is now called Charlotte’s Web.

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JY8Rj TIL Berlin Germany has an airport Brandenburg(BER) that has been under construction for 14 years with constant delayed openings with no real end in sight. It has never seen a single passenger and may actually never open, making it one of the costliest public construction debacles in history.
dZN7 TIL A Bahraini Princess eloped with an American Marine she met in a shopping mall.
VZAB TIL that, while crocodiles can close their mouths with extreme force, their ability to OPEN their mouths is incredibly weak. Their jaws can be held shut using a rubber band.
wo0o TIL that in the state of Washington, it is a felony to kill a Sasquach
nVgb TIL, in 1962, an intruder climbing the fence at a Minnesota air base set off the “sabotage alarm” in all bases in the area. In one base, due to wrong wiring, the Klaxon was sounded ordering nuclear-armed aircraft to take off, and the pilots believed WW3 has started. The original intruder was a bear.