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

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gM7KL TIL Apollo 13 was shot in “a hollowed-out, windowless, padded Boeing 707 jet that climbs to 30,000 ft. and then arcs into a steep dive, creating a 23-second period of weightlessness.” This plane is used by NASA for 0g training.
9kk7 TIL you could swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool without being harmed
WkLdX TIL that before they approached George Foreman as a spokesman, the makers of the "George Foreman Grill" had previously considered Hulk Hogan. He however decided to pitch the "Hulkamania Meatball Maker" instead.
QJLX TIL that because of breeding, corn as we know it today would not survive in the wild. It would become extinct if human agriculture and farms ceased to exist.
a8ejJ TIL Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish neurologist that escaped Nazi Germany, founded what would become the Paralympic Games in 1948 with the Stoke Mandeville Games. Guttmann believed sport was a major form of therapy for disabled people