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TIL 90 percent of women reported that marijuana increased feelings of sexual pleasure

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lYMa TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India
gMXPW TIL Quebec "unofficially" got rid of Slavery in 1798, 35 years before it was abolished, because the Chief of Justice couldn't find any laws to punish an escaped slave named Charlotte who refused to return to her master- so he set her free. Other slaves found out and started doing the same thing.
0OLj TIL Leonardo Dicaprio bought an island in Belize 10 years ago and built the world’s first eco-restorative resort that “restores” the island’s over-fished waters, coastline and forest
m15Kx TIL that During the Victorian Era, rich English people would host “unwrapping” parties with genuine Egyptian mummies.
mx4wY TIL that in 1989 around 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania held hands in peaceful protest against the Soviet Union, creating a chain of people that was 600 km long. Known as the Baltic Chain, it sparked demonstrations overseas and forced the USSR to acknowledge its crimes.