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TIL one man named his baby SaTiva after the marijuana strain. When he had his second daughter in 2020, he named her Indica after another strain.

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8d64 TIL Women used to wear foot long pins in their hats which could be used in self defense to stab men who groped or assaulted them.
kJOR1 TIL of Byron Looper, a Tennessee politician known for both changing his middle name to "(Low Tax)" as a vote-winning stunt and, during a Tennessee state senate race, assassinating his opponent. In the election, held a month later, he still received 1,531 votes.
pBxN TIL that “Seawise Giant,” the largest self-propelled man-made object ever is longer than the Empire State Building is tall
yQeA8 TIL Dave Grohl has tried to live as frugally as possible after watching his mother have a stroke while filing her taxes
e0R1E TIL that a 2002 episode of "The Twilight Zone" addressed the novikov self-consistency principle of time travel: a woman, played by Katherine Heigl, goes back in time to kill baby Hitler. She succeeds, but his mother adopts a child and raises him as Adolf. He grows up to lead the Nazi Party.