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TIL nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit of the same tree

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7kb7 TIL 13 years ago Portugal decriminalized the usage of drugs. This legalization has been proven a success, increasing the number of people seeking drug abuse support and lowering the rate of HIV spread through drug usage.
VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.
WWQB TIL that a water treatment plant was home to 107 million spiders.
NXaB6 TIL that during WWII, Volkswagen produced wood-burning cars called "Holzbrenner" due to fuel shortages. They ran on flammable gas produced by heating wood, not by burning it directly.
78py7 TIL in 1985, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) likely helped to facilitate the prison escape of eventual Liberian leader and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor.