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TIL according to genetic and archaeological evidence, cannabis was first domesticated about 12,000 years ago in East Asia during the early Neolithic period. The oldest written record of cannabis usage is the Greek historian Herodotus's reference to the Scythians taking cannabis steam baths.

GYj67 TIL LLamas are the latest four-legged weapon against mutton-loving coyotes and wild dogs. Llamas are big, smart and have been known to kill coyotes by stomping them to death. They are becoming very popular right now as sheep guards. And it’s all an instctive thing. There is no training.
epxNJ TIL that Dominos quit using “The Noid” in their ads after a mentally ill man named Kenneth Noid thought he was being personally persecuted and entered a Domino's restaurant in Georgia with a .357 Magnum and held two employees hostage for over five hours.
Q58d TIL that 18th century Prussian king Frederick William I was obsessed with having soldiers over 6 foot tall. He paid families for tall children, kidnapped tall men, bred them by pairing up his soldiers with tall women, and even stretched them on a rack to make them taller.
xV5wB TIL Chimpanzees have been known to steal alcohol, get drunk, then attack humans after mistaking them for monkeys
gr9MD TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient