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

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6Exd7 TIL that a study of deaths on the show Game of Thrones found that the probability of a character dying within the first hour after first appearing on screen was 14%.
E1YYw TIL In 1936, Pennsylvania placed a tax on all alcohol sales to help out victims of the Johnstown Flood...and that tax is STILL charged.
x6pVg TIL that a bear took a three year old child, off a front porch, by carrying her in it's front paws while running away on its hind legs. The child was later found dead and the bear was killed when it returned to finish eating the body.
D1blY TIL that during the 50s til 70s the UK Foreign Office had a program of destroying or hiding files from its ex-colonies, as they gained independence, if they that could embarrass the UK government. This happened in over 20 countries and included documents pertaining to torture and racial biases.
gMXBL TIL that during WWI in Germany, horses were considered army reservists; owners had to register them regularly, and the army kept detailed records on the locations of all horses. In the first weeks of the war, the German army mobilized 715,000 horses.