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TIL that the first arrest for Marijuana possession and selling occurred in Denver, Colorado on October 2, 1937

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gMp88 TIL of a baseball player who took out his false teeth to look more intimidating during games. During one game he put them in his hip pocket, and managed to bite himself on the ass when he slid into second base
GANE1 TIL India has a vast and rich (and unexplored) dinosaur fossil beds which is not even well known in India
p8X9b TIL - Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, the Nazis had set up an area with captured Yugoslav aircraft. But while the German guards were listening to the news, local communists moved the fence separating the working ones from the non-working ones, leading to all aircraft being scrapped.
dLbB TIL that during the civil rights movement, interracial adoptions tripled in number until the National Association of Black Social Workers condemned it, leading to interracial adoption of black children coming to a complete stop in the 1990’s.
gMgb8 TIL that George Clooney was instrumental in developing the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), which monitors African conflict regions and provides early warning for potential atrocities.