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TIL marijuana has been legal for home use in Alaska since 1975

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MJWm TIL that swearing increases your pain threshold.
KOJAQ TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo were actually commissioned to paint frescos in the same room on opposite walls and it was to be Florence's premier "event" at the time. They hated each other, bickered, and neither every actually completed their work.
R5dBj TIL that modern nuclear submarines are so well camouflaged that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
5VV1B TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the "Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands", a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.
Kp4R TIL A study released by the U.S. Geological Survey found mercury in every freshwater fish from nearly 300 streams that were tested, an astonishing result because mercury has usually been associated with large saltwater fish. USGS is warning to limit eating large, predator freshwater