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TIL When you stop smoking weed, you’re going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep for the next 2-7 weeks.

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Zpx1Q TIL during the Battle of Waterloo the French suffered nearly 40,000 casualties making it one of the deadliest events in French military history. The defeat marked the end of Napoleon’s military career
5VnjQ TIL None of the Beatles actually knew how to read or write music…
VMj8 TIL female koalas have two vaginas, and a male koala’s penis is split into two.
e0pkk TIL of the Amritsar massacre in India. In April 1919, when Indians, the majority Sikh, gathered to protest in a walled garden against British Colonial rule, British troops opened fire on the peaceful protestors, killing anywhere from 379-1000 and injuring another 1,100.
b8Ya TIL that during WWI, the United States attempted to change words that had German origins. Sauerkraut came to be called “liberty cabbage”, German measles became “liberty measles”, hamburgers became “liberty sandwiches”.