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TIL Ross Rebagliati, the first man to win Gold in Snowboarding in the Olympics only to be DQ’d for marijuana, now owns a medical marijuana business called Ross’ Gold

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8O1X TIL a Cleveland woman who was arrested for a traffic infraction was ordered to stand on a corner during rush hour for two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.”
vP5M8 TIL about the Rathbone family. A family of shipbuilders and merchants from the 1700s. Members include actor Basil (played Sherlock Holmes and villains in Robin Hood and Zorro) and COL Henry Rathbone (who was in the box seat with President Lincoln when he got shot by Booth)
NXvv6 TIL about aardwolf, an insectivorous hyaenid species, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch.
l7JQA TIL: Mochi is highly cohesive and adhesive, and easy to choke on causing many fatal suffocation accidents in the elderly aged 65 years or older.
196W TIL the most common reason Japanese people wear face masks is to protect us from THEIR germs. Not from other people’s.