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

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YwKG TIL Bryan Cranston did most of his own stunts on “Malcolm in the Middle”. A writer on the show jokingly asked whether Cranston would be willing to wear a suit of live bees, Cranston said yes—so they wrote a script around the idea. He ended up covered in 10,000 bees, and only got stung once.
6K7W TIL that instead of ice cream trucks, Japan has baked potato trucks.
grwkD TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal
gEG7 TIL there is a grove of 16 olive trees in Lebanon that are at least 5,000 years old. They still produce olives and you can purchase olive oil made from them.
gARW TIL that Canada has bestowed honorary citizenship on only five individuals, with Malala Yousafzai soon to be sixth. The others are Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Karim Aga Khan IV (a Shia Imam), and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands during the Holocaust.