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TIL that in North Korea, marijuana is legal and commonly used

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Eg440 TIL that Steven Adams of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team is the youngest of EIGHTEEN children - many of which are also champion athletes.
v1YQ8 TIL in the 1980s Bayer knowingly sold medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS, infecting thousands of people around the world. After realizing their product was contaminated Bayer kept sending the same medicine to Asia and Latin America, while selling a new safer version in the West.
D1NJr TIL that to get back at her cheating husband, artist Frida Kahlo slept with a women that he cheated on her with.
E1EAX TIL tears contain leucine enkephalin, a natural pain killer, which is suggested to be the mechanism behind the experience of crying from emotion making an individual feel better.