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TIL Cannabis was an important part of Japanese culture from prehistoric times until their defeat in WWII

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JYJk TIL That author Kurt Vonnegut threatened to sue Pall Mall cigarettes for not killing him.
YGPr TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, asked for an autopsy to be done after his death to determine what made him kill. The autopsy found a tumor pressing on his amygdala, possibly influencing his actions.
b9xw9 TIL there is there is an equation for how quickly a real conspiracy theory would reveal itself. The more people involved the quicker the truth comes out. Estimates if the Moon landing was really faked, it would have been revealed in under 4 years.
ZppbB TIL when an electrocuted human gets launched across a room, it is not from the current itself, but rather our muscles contracting all at once from the current.
5VYOP TIL That in 1342, there was a flood so bad in Germany, that it changed the whole nutritional intake of the population, because the flood took away so much fertile ground people started to eat much more meat for the next few generations.