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TIL Raccoons are an invasive species in Central Europe and Japan

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eGO5 TIL Whoopi Goldberg co-founded a company that makes medical marijuana products for women seeking relief from menstrual cramps. Goldberg says she was inspired to go into business by “a lifetime of difficult periods and the fact that cannabis was literally the only thing that gave me relief”.
OoZP1 TIL The queen of England is a Viking. She is a decendant of Rollo the viking
R5jX1 TIL In 1949, a Spanish-language version of Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio adaptation aired in Ecuador. When listeners in the capital city of Quito learned it was fiction, the citizens rioted and burned down the radio station and news outlet, killing at least seven people.
bAXa TIL there’s a fountain in Italy that dispenses free wine 24-7.
Mer1W TIL that North-Korea is heavily involved in the manufacturing and even exporting of hard-drugs like methamphetamine. Even going as far as having state-run laboratories manufacturing them.