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TIL Jazz musician Louis Armstrong regarded his marijuana consumption “a healthy alternative to drinking.”

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kJB1B TIL Tommy Lee Jones sells coffee in Japan
p8K5p TIL the American Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill Of Rights) are stored in a 55-ton steel reinforced vault. In the case of danger like a nuclear war, the documents would likely be transported by air to a secure, undisclosed, underground location
60M7 TIL Albert Einstein’s son, Hans, was a famous hydraulic engineering professor who developed important equations for sediment transport in rivers. When reporters asked Albert what he thought of his son’s career, he replied, “He is working on a more difficult problem”
8a5Za TIL that shark skin is not soft, but feel more like sandpaper.
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