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TIL Raccoons invaded Japan originally, because they're cute! They are not native.

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YyGP TIL that Samuel Caldwell was the first person in America to be arrested for selling marijuana. Arrested in 1937 for selling two joints, he was sentenced to a $1000 fine and four years of hard labor. This happened in one of the only places in America where pot is legal today, Denver Colorado.
XE51D TIL spiked dog collars don't only "look cool", they originated from actual sharp spiked wolf collars used to protect shepherd dogs from wolf attaks.
690KQ TIL that the lesbian divorce rate is much higher than the divorce rate among men, and in Denmark, it's consistent with data showing that women initiate most heterosexual divorces.
oQ0r TIL that there is a whale known as the “world’s loneliest whale”. It calls out at a frequency not heard by other whales and therefore receives no response… It swims the oceans in search of others and receives no reply…
X04lj TIL that the first car to achieve a land speed record of 62mph, (100kph), was a Belgian designed electric vehicle in 1899.