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TIL Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was a marijuana enthusiast. The original title of his autobiography was ‘My Love Affair with Marijuana’

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7vm7 TIL India is building a fence around Bangladesh
wLVGW TIL Of Timothy Evans, a Welshman tried, convicted, and hung for the murder of his daughter. Throughout the trial, he blamed his downstairs neighbour for the murder. Three years later, his downstairs neighbour confessed.
KYyN6 TIL: In the United States, children were considered the parents property until the 1960s. Even in 1956, attempts to pass U.S. Federal legislation to ban baby-selling failed.
oB1po TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children. He wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but come from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. And petitioning Congress to end slavery.
OG6ag TIL bears in Yellowstone can eat 40,000 moth grubs per day.