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TIL: Despite spending over $1 Trillion on the war on drugs teenage Marijuana use has more then doubled since the 1990s.

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VMmgp TIL, Lego HQ in Billund, Denmark has an underground vault containing every Lego set ever made.
OoRk6 TIL that since 2016, the real bones of nazist Josef Mengele, the nazist Angel of Death, are used in a brazilian school to teach medical forensics.
J1XE4 TIL about half of Kauai’s 111-mile coastline is made up of beaches. It has more beaches than any other Hawaiian Island. About 97% of the island is undeveloped and is also the oldest island at 5.1 million years old, the 2nd oldest island , Oahu, is 2.2-3.4 million years old.
pRMZ TIL on the first splashdown by a Soviet crew, the Soyuz capsule landed in the middle of blizzard ,punched through a frozen lake, went fully underwater and the lake above them froze over partially requiring an intense rescue operation lasting 9 hours under −22 °C.
VMOBQ TIL: Dino Bravo, WWE/F main eventer in the 80's, was found murdered after being shot 17 times. It is suspected to be a mafia hit connected to cigarette smuggling.