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TIL You can take a tour of the white house with google maps!

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OBlg TIL that the National Review, a leading conservative / republican publication, advocated for marijuana legalization in its cover article … in 1972.
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x81w TIL that under Islamic Sharia law a raped woman’s testimony in court is worth half that of her rapist