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TIL: Israel is considered a global leader in medical cannabis research and innovation, ctizens caught using cannabis in public cannot be arrested but may face fines, with the money collected from these fines going to education and rehabilitation programs

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G8mg TIL before his suicide, composer Jeremiah Clarke flipped a coin to decide whether to hang or drown himself. After the coin landed on its side, he went home and shot himself instead.
xRxo TIL Strabo wrote the earliest variant of the Cinderella myth circa 24 AD, set in Egypt. Rhodopis, a Greek, was bathing when an eagle snatched one of her shoes, carried it to the sunset, and dropped it into the lap of the Pharaoh. He searched for the owner of the shoe, found Rhodopis and married her
MeJd7 TIL that the Morton Salt Company(Girl in a Yellow Dress) was the same company that caused the Challenger disaster(Morton-Thiokol).
4XZ6R TIL The Lekki Conservation Center In Lekki, Nigeria, is an oasis of nature within the urban chaos of Lagos, and the suspended canopy walkway that rises over the reserve is the longest in all of Africa
8ayEK TIL that when female rabbits think they're pregnant they pull their fur out and make a nest.