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TIL that US teens smoke more Marijuana than Cigarettes

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dw9K TIL: Loki appeared in Marvel Comics roughly 13 years before Thor.
E19Kp TIL a beer called ‘Snake Venom’ by Scottish brewery Brewmeister is the world’s strongest beer. It contains a massive 67.5% alcohol by volume. (Vodka, in comparison, is typically 80 proof, or 40% alcohol).
yM1e TIL that a succulent native to Morocco produces Resiniferatoxin, a compound so spicy that it is approximately 1,000 times stronger than pure capsacin on the Scoville scale. It can cause severe chemical burns and is being researched towards a possible new class of analgesics
69y5X TIL that in the 1960s, San Diego considered building a floating stadium in Mission Bay for the Chargers and Padres, with modular pontoon sections to accommodate various events
Y76LA TIL: Self replicating probes or spacecraft, also called Von Neumann probes was a concept theorized by the mathematician. He argued that this is the most efficient method of space exploration/mining as they can adapt. The concept has been used in various media such as Mass Effect, Star Trek, etc.