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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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Qy6L TIL Norway gets 98-99% of its electricity from hydroelectric power, more than any other country
JQ9Q TIL, in India, it is illegal to know the sex of the child before its birth!
ZB4 TIL Despite having helped win WWII by cracking the German Enigma code, and being the father modern computers, the British government still refuses to posthumously pardon Alan Turing for convictions relating to his homosexuality.
nWLkG TIL that for decades there was speculation why "Dolly for Sue", a seemingly normal rag doll, was present on the Island of Misfit Toys in the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special. In 2007, Arthur Rankin revealed that she was a Misfit Toy due to being clinically depressed.
5YXkQ TIL that the Seven Years War, because it included every European great power and spanned five continents, is sometimes referred to as "World War Zero"