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TIL 1% of all electricity consumed in the USA is used in the growing of marijuana

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dpdK TIL that President Harry S. Truman’s middle name was literally the letter “S”
X0prk TIL in 1973, a Harvard astrophysicist suggested that we won't discover more advanced civilizations because they don't want us to find them and have the technology to ensure we never do. They have also set aside our planet as a zoo wherein they can observe us. He coined this idea the Zoo Hypothesis.
9dom TIL Nanoparticles containing bee venom toxin melittin can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while at the same time leaving surrounding cells unharmed.
8avVb TIL the CIA used a device called Jack in the Box, made from sex dolls cut from the shoulder down. If an agent was being tailed by the KGB, his driver would turn sharply, giving him time to hop out of the car. The driver would then deploy the device, so it would look like the agent is in the car.
gwXy TIL of a 83 year old lady from Wyoming who maintains and regularly uses a 122 year old sourdough culture, she makes pancakes out of it.