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TIL Nigerians smoke the most marijuana on earth, spending over $15 billion on marijuana annually.

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MLp7 TIL that unlike most airlines after 9/11, who collectively lost over $50 billion and shed 160,000 jobs, Southwest Airlines didn’t lay off one employee or ground one flight to save money. Also, when it opened at BWI Airport, fares dropped 70 percent and the number of passengers increased sevenfold.
P1ne TIL: Audio cassette data storage was once so popular in some countries that radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record and then load into their computer.
x6eW5 TIL that the Alf TV series ended with Alf kidnapped by the US government (which wanted to disect Alf). Originally a season finale cliffhanger, this ended up being the series finale.
NXxGQ TIL of the Bengal Water Machine, a water capture mechanism resulting from the pumping of shallow subsurface water by millions of individual small landholders.
J1lYl TIL that sloths can starve to death on a full stomach