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

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LpXQ TIL that California’s largest wildfire was started by a lost hunter who had made a fire to signal rescuers, and as a result fifteen people died
LoAd TIL in 2010, a Florida programmer paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas. Those bitcoin were worth $7 Million in 2013 and almost $6 Million today.
N5ke TIL common rocks and hardened clays can trap electrons in quantum pockets for thousands of years and release those electrons when reheated giving off light that can be used to date the rocks-( Thermoluminescence dating).
v1OYr TIL the songwriter behind Meat Loaf's 'Bat Out of Hell' also wrote Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of My Heart' and Celine Dion's 'It’s All Coming Back to Me Now'
NK8e TIL: Erotic Asphyxiation started in the 1600’s as a medical treatment for erectile dysfunction when doctors observed that male hanging victims often developed erections.