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TIL Professor David Nutt was asked to step down as the government’s chief drug advisor after claiming LSD is safer than alcohol

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Zp0np TIL Nigeria is projected to have almost 800 million people by the year 2100
Z4Qp TIL that 25 years ago, two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning over 600 kilometres (370 mi) across the three Baltic states in memory of the victims of the Soviet terror.
ADNrl TIL Homer Simpson is an honourary citizen of Winnipeg
OoAbg TIL that Davinder Singh of New Delhi, India broke a Guinness World Record in 2017 for typing fast with his nose, managing to type a 17-word English sentence in just over 40 seconds.
8eLmL TIL While noodles were popularized by Thailand’s government in the 1940s as part of an effort to save rice after a major flood, the first mention of Pad Thai in a cookbook only occurred in the 1960s.