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TIL that police in Georgia, "drug recognition experts," can arrest someone for driving under the influence of marijuana just by claiming the driver seemed to be impaired — even when tests show otherwise

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PYlQg TIL Neil Armstrong before leaving for the Apollo 11 Space mission signed hundreds of autographs and had them dropped in the mail on the exact date of their moon mission, in case he died during the mission and his family could monetize his autographs.
6AVY TIL The USA 10 dollar bill from 1914 pictured a man growing marijuana.
loOEA TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!
Wd0Y TIL Owsley Stanley singlehandedly ignited the psychedelic scene in the sixties by producing over 1 million doses of LSD from a makeshift bathroom laboratory in Berkeley between 1965 and 1967.
nZ9o TIL that when you are under stress it triggers your body’s defences.Your blood thickens to encourage blood clotting in the event of an injury.This thicker blood puts strain on your heart.That is why stress increases the risk of heart attacks