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TIL North Korea is the only country where Marijuana is 100% legal to grow, sell, possess, and use.

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Z8NjR TIL The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader
Y7jaW TIL optical telegraphs (at the turn of the 19th century) had many features now commonplace in modern networks, including control characters, routing, error control, flow control, message priority, and symbol rate control.
XEVRP TIL that the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer, had to work without pay for most of her career, and was referred to as S.D mother in newspaper headlines when she won her Nobel.
d8LyQ TIL "URL" means "Uniform Resource Locator"
D1eZv TIL Seattle's Space Needle is an example of Googie architecture, a type that flourished in the post WWII era and was parodied on The Jetsons. It was named for the West Hollywood Googie's Coffee Shop designed in 1949 by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright.