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TIL that there is a government facility in Vancouver where you can legally inject heroin

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GDyj TIL there’s an organisation that buys CO2 emission permits in order to take them out of the system. Fewer permits mean less pollution.
nMgB TIL of Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie ‘Code of the Secret Service’… which starred a young Ronald Reagan.
wooaP TIL all of Oklahoma's "Unassigned Lands" were settled in one day. At high noon on April 22, 1889, approx. 50k settlers lined up, and a starting gunshot was fired. They raced chaotically to claim the lands (taken back from Indigenous tribes), and by the end of the day, nearly 2M acres were claimed
4XN5J TIL that Crazy Rich Asians casting was widely criticized for not being ethnically Chinese enough, not being Ethnically Malaysian enough, and using a non-Singaporean version of English.
rjR1 TIL that in 1980, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that God is not a person