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Til that even though it's still illegal, the UK is the largest exporter of weed in the world.

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5VJlp TIL Potatoes were only introduced into Europe in the late 16th century, and are believed to have originated in the Andes region of South America, which includes parts of present-day Peru and Bolivia.
6ml7 TIL that there is a hardcore full contact style of Karate called “Kyokushin” which means “The Ultimate Truth” in Japanese where students fight barehanded and have to fight 100 people in a row in order to get a black belt.
VP5G TIL that people used to send Vinegar Valentines to those that they despised. These were essentially insult cards with a picture and an insulting poem that were given on Valentine’s Day.
Vp00 TIL The skeleton found by Tuco inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill cemetery in the movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.
VBYap TIL the Pan Am 747 destroyed in the worst aviation accident 45 years ago at Tenerife was coincidentally also the first 747 to make a commercial flight, the first 747 to be hijacked, was named Clipper Victor, and the Captain was Victor Grubbs