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TIL Muggles is an old 1920’s term for marijuana

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E1N1V TIL about the CWS T1 a 1930's Polish car that only needed one wrench and a screwdriver to work on.
yQnRl TIL Millennium '73, a festival at the Houston Astrodome organized by the followers of 15-year-old guru Maharaj Ji, was promoted as "the most significant event in human history which would usher in a thousand years of peace." It featured big-band music and drew between 10,000 and 35,000 attendees.
X0alk TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice
P1jQL TIL that Israel and Argentina are the only countries where McDonald’s grills their hamburgers over charcoal instead of using a flat-top griddle.
Bgglk TIL the head of the Swedish Uppsala Mafia (Uppsalamaffian) made off with over 200 million dollars with the release of a hand held gaming console called the Gizmondo that was immediately met with such harsh negative reception, it was deemed "one of the worst gaming consoles ever".