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TIL that US teens smoke more Marijuana than Cigarettes

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b9Oe7 TIL that between 1941 and 1942 the soviets tried to train "Anti-tank dogs" to blow up German tanks. However the dogs would usually run back into the trenches killing soviet soldiers.
nevRW TIL that the Pythagorean theorem was discovered and proven by Babylonian mathematicians 1000 years before Pythagoras was born
x6kkD TIL that billionaire Robert H. Richards IV r*ped his infant son and 3-year-old daughter numerous times. He would tell her it was their "little secret”, but she didn't want her "daddy touching [her] anymore". When caught, the judge said he would not "fare well" in prison and his sentence was dropped.
vBr4 TIL of Cunninghams Law “the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
M7XJ0 TIL the very first draft of Star Wars: A New Hope was a two-page outline called "The Journal of the Whills". It would be about the adventures of Mace Windy, a "Jedi-Bendu" from Planet Ophuchi, and his "padawaan learner", a 16-year-old boy called C.J. Thorpe.