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TIL That One of the names for Storms this Year is "Nana"

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Eoyp TIL that inside a 2,700-year-old grave of a shaman, a large leather basket and wooden bowl was found filled with 789g of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions.
Mey4b TIL that celebrities have to pay $30k for their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They must sign a form stating that they want a star and that they will attend the unveiling of it. Celebrities Julia Roberts, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, and Al Pacino still don't have a star.
1aMPX TIL there is a mine in Canada with enough arsenic to kill every human on the planet.
oZGW TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
KaX4 TIL the nazis were the first modern government to enact a smoking ban.