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TIL that cannabinoid receptors evolved before the spine

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VMEa0 TIL During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy said: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” His advisor immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
x6leg TIL: The Battle of Karansebes of 1788 was a friendly fire incident where the Austrian army got drunk with locals, and during a drunken fight, shots were fired, resulting in a panic that caused 150 deaths, 1200 wounds, 538 men went missing, and 3 cannons and a chest containing payroll was stolen.
b9OW0 TIL Dolly the Sheep was named after Dolly Parton's Cleavage. Dolly's cells came from a mammary gland, and a scientist "couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's"
b6lmZ TIL about Ahn Changho. He and his wife were the first married Korean couple to immigrate to the US in 1902. He is credited with co-writing South Korea’s national anthem, and two of his sons, Philip Ahn and Ralph Ahn, went on to be actors in Hollywood
vnPj TIL that there is a disease called Witzelsucht, that some call the Joker Disease. It can “cause people to make jokes, puns, and engage in what could be considered inappropriate conversation and/or behaviour.”