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TIL Sweden has one of the Western world’s toughest drug policies (including cannabis)

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gMo5W TIL The only person to serve prison time for the Iran-Contra Scandal was a minister who in protest stole a street sign named for John Poindexter.
R5vQa TIL: That after finishing 6th at the 1968 Olympics, Ron Clarke visited his predecessor as the world’s greatest distance runner, Emil Zátopek. When he left for Australia, Zatopek gave him a present to be opened on the plane. It was one of his gold medals with a note saying "because you deserve it."
j6eLX TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.
woPeY TIL Main Street in San Francisco is not a centrally located street, because it’s actually named for a person: 19th century businessman Charles Main
9YJy6 TIL that the Sperm Whale have the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth