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TIL Canada fixes the price of dairy by law, costing Canadians an additional $300 in groceries per year — and you can go to prison for smuggling cheese across the border.

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QNRZE TIL that Josef Mengele lived out the rest of his natural life in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, operating under the names José Mengele and later Wolfgang Gerhard.
jyon TIL 10,000+ toddlers age 2-3 are being prescribed Ritalin and Adderall to treat behavioral disorder
YpAn7 TIL A synthesizer repairman accidentally had a 9-hour acid trip after picking at a crystalline structure on an old sythesizer from the 60s which turned out to be LSD. A LSD researcher explained that LSD can remain potent for decades and be absorbed through the skin.
VMp60 TIL Fat Bottom Girls and Bicycle Race by Queen were released together on a double A-sided single, and refer to each other. Near the end of Fat Bottomed Girls, Mercury shouts, "Get on your bikes and ride!" Bicycle Race reciprocates with the lyric "fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today."
m14Np TIL that sniper Simo Häyhä kept a Winter War diary discovered in 2018 from his nephew's drawer, that can now be read online for free, visualized and contextualized also with his letters and other memories