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TIL Marijuana is completely legal in North Korea as it is not considered a drug

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mx4lE TIL a woman named Edith Roller kept a journal of her life in the People's Temple until she died with 918 other Americans during a mass suicide in Jonestown.
LQY0v TIL During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps built an 800 mile long firebreak through Oregon and California
BgvXr TIL David Nutt invented “alcosynth” — a synthetic version of alcohol without the negative toxins and hangovers. Nutt hopes alcosynth could replace traditional alcohol by 2050
W98Y TIL: A city in England got rid of all it’s traffic lights and said that “Drivers will now be expected to use a combination of common sense and courtesy to negotiate the junction of the town’s High Street"
wMbP TIL that when Mart Laar became Prime-Minister of Estonia at age 33, the only economics book he had read was Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” He said that it sounded good to him, “so we went ahead and did it.” Estonia now has the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU.