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TIL of Mary Jane Rathbun, an elderly hospital volunteer who became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients in the 1980's.

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KOMX6 TIL that Taco Bell originally started out as a hotdog stand in 1948. Glen Bell, the founder, reverse engineered the taco recipe from a popular Mexican restaurant across the street. He then reopened as a taco stand that would later become Taco Bell.
GAWr5 TIL that the USA uses 10x as much salt on the road than they do in processed foods, and was first introduced on the roads in New Hampshire.
4XrVX TIL Most of our 60 trillion dollar stock and bond markets are non-physical AND unsecured.
8oaK TIL that 30,000 American draft dodgers went to Canada during the Vietnam War, while 30,000 Canadians joined the US military to fight in the Vietnam War
R70X7 TIL one of the 9/11 Hijackers Ziad Jarrah wanted to be a pilot since he was 5. His father forbid that due to his fears that his only son might die in a crash