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TIL the Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Gameboy Color is banned in Saudi Arabia because “it promotes Zionism”

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WgZB TIL a Marine horse named “Reckless” carried 9000lbs of ammo on her own during one battle in Korea, received 2 purple hearts, and was promoted to Staff Sergeant with a 19 gun salute.
eoxD TIL the consumption of a fresh mango, 45 minutes before inhaling cannabis, will result in a faster onset of psycho activity and greater intensity due to the high β-Myrcene which is also found in cannabis.
M7Rk7 TIL just 54% of U.S. adults can read at a sixth-grade reading level
KOR59 TIL The world is made by the left-brained (right handed), prefers denotative language, what is known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit. A right hemisphere (left handed) modus operandi would yield a changing, evolving, linked, implicit world, the living not the mechanical.
4koXJ TIL that Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian scientist, experimented with blood transfusions from younger individuals for rejuvenation. He tragically died after transfusing blood from a student with malaria and tuberculosis, though the student miraculously recovered.