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TIL Heroin became popular among american soldiers during the Vietnam war because it was easier to take secretly than marijuana.

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LQWOd TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory whereby the CIA intentionally popularized it after the Kennedy assassination to discredit and ridicule conspiratorial believers
5VX98 TIL: In 1994 Karl Wendlinger crashed his formula 1 car in the Monaco Grand Prix and survived a crash that rated 360g’s
VQ54 TIL that after Soviet Russia signed a cooperative pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, they invaded and annexed Poland, and they claimed it was to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland.
8eelZ TIL that the official drink of Rhode island is Coffee Milk
eyQg TIL that in January 1997, the capitol of Ghana rioted over accusations of penis snatching wizards. Several people were killed by mobs who accused them of using magic handshakes to kidnap penises and hold them for ransom.