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TIL Zog I crowned himself the first (and only) King of Albania, smoked 200 cigarettes a day, survived 55 assassination attempts, and was declared 'Public Enemy #1' by the government and fled with a suitcase full of gold

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x6MM7 TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days
W19 TIL in WWII, both Allied and Axis forces, specifically pilots, were known to be methamphetamine users, so much so that it was nicknamed “Pilot’s Salt”.
yMDa TIL if you cut off a ring of bark around a tree trunk, the tree will die
bOR0 TIL that all of the 90’s Disney movies are from a period called the Disney Renaissance, which was considered to have started with The Little Mermaid(1989), and ended with Tarzan(1999), wherein Disney made $3.9 billion dollars worldwide.
awaBL TIL in 1969, President Nixon proposed a minimum income for poor families known as the Family Assistance Plan (FAP). While it passed in the House, the proposal never made it out of the Senate committee.