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TIL Canada has the highest Cannabis use in the world.

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16pLX TIL that the first woman to sail around the globe was French botanist Jeanne Baret. She had to disguise herself as a man, and accompanied her collaborator (and secret lover) Phillibert Commerson on the Bougainville expedition. Together they discovered hundreds of new plants.
l7x6A TIL that Famous Amos cookies are named for Wally Amos, a talent agent who first signed Simon and Garfunkle. His first cookie shop was started with a loan from Marvin Gaye.
6ZrJ TIL in Marvel Comics, Doctor Doom’s armor contains splinters of the True Cross in order to protect himself from vampires
wo8L7 TIL that Operation Valkyrie, a plot to kill Hitler, failed because the bag containing the bomb was moved at the last second by a Nazi Official, saving Hitler
6EeX8 TIL Charles Darwin ate many exotic animals he discovered including the Galapagos turtle