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TIL Pot is legal and in North Korea. It carries no social stigma, and is widely used.

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6Z6W TIL that a 47yo Frenchman agreed to pay 90yo Jeanne Calment a monthly fee until she died, then take over her apartment. She would become the oldest human in history, outliving him by 2 years.
PVlV TIL Gene Wilder is still alive, and hasn’t acted in a movie, because he is tired of “the bombing, shooting, killing, swearing and 3-D.”
ZdvG TIL that the people who work on the iPhone assembly line make but $1.78 an hour
0JgR TIL that a man memorized all the prices of past items on The Price is Right, and repeatedly helped contestants win, until he was banned from the show for 10 years.
W7GrA TIL that there was once a device to flatten neckties for ironing them.