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TIL Cannabis is a stimulant, depressant, and a hallucinogen all in one.

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O7lg TIL that NASA hires a man to sniff everything that they send to space. If he doesn’t like the smell, it doesn’t go to space.
b6mp4 TIL legendary sing-songwriter and inventor of the Jello Shot, Tom Lehrer, transferred all his music into the public domain and all of his recorded songs can be downloaded for free.
ybM TIL Colonel Gaddafi was sodomised with a knife or stick before he was killed
6Ebj8 TIL The first time evidence of an exoplanet was found was in 1917, but the first exoplanet wasn't confirmed until 1992. Astronomers have now discovered 4200+ exoplanets in 3100+ star systems.
4Xy6J TIL of the Saratoga Springs Legend. A claim that crisps were invented in New York, despite being invented in England decades earlier. This legend continued into at least the 1970s when a major advertising campaign attributed the invention of crisps to the US.