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TIL marijuana has the potential to both treat and promote psychosis, as its two main components (THC and CBD) act very differently on a normal human brain.

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OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.
yQgo8 TIL Coco Chanel, famous fashion designer, was a Nazi sympathizer and agent
m8vR TIL New Zealand is free from Rabies.
Bw5x TIL then mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein divulged forensic evidence to the media, thereby ruining the case detectives had built up and enabling serial killer Richard Ramirez to remain at large.
awRbo TIL In Switzerland, local residents have a say in a person's passport application. In 2017, a vegan activist had her application rejected after residents voted against her 'for being annoying'