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TIL that it is illegal for Federal Employees to possess or use marijuana under any circumstances, even for medicinal use or if they live in a state that allows it.

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eMag TIL That Batwoman was introduced in 1956 in order to quell suspicions that Batman was homosexual.
wLgL6 TIL the etymology of the word “humiliation” has a universal characteristic in the sense that in all languages the word involves “downward spatial orientation” in which “something or someone is pushed down and forcefully held there."
BdWx TIL Derek Kieper, an anti-seat belt law advocate, was killed in a car wreck because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.
v1ml8 TIL that French billionaire Pierre Bernard Papillaud demanded that the city of Weeds in California give up its water source, Beaughan Spring, to his bottled water company Christaline.
X0v4j TIL Henry George's funeral in New York was so large that many commentators argued about whether it was the largest funeral in New York history or if it was the largest since Lincoln's.