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TIL Cannabis is completely legal in North Korea and Uruguay

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LYBd TIL U2 pilots were given cyanide suicide pills. After a pilot almost accidentally ingested a suicide pill instead of candy during a flight, the suicide pills were put into boxes to avoid confusion.
Brv6k TIL Ancient Veggies Were Small, Unpalatable. Ancient tomatoes were the size of berries; potatoes were no bigger than peanuts. Corn was a wild grass, its tooth-cracking kernels borne in clusters as small as pencil erasers
dNkZ TIL lead acetate (the form of lead found in lead paints) was once used as an artificial sweetener
mYbO TIL there’s a website called freerice.com that asks you vocabulary questions, and donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme for every question you answer correctly.
B8PD TIL Alcoholics Anonymous has a 5 to 10% success rate ~ 1 in 15.