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

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lp7G TIL Charles Sheridan repeated Milgram’s experiment with one difference. He used a puppy as a victim instead of a human. Intriguingly, the six students out of 26 that refused to go on were all men while all thirteen women who participated in the experiment obeyed right up until the end.
GAngG TIL that the 97-kilogram Welcome Stranger, the biggest gold nugget ever found, wasn't discovered deep beneath the earth in a mine, it was only 3 cm below the surface.
4Xk5b TIL that Kiribati, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean, is the only country in the world that is situated within all four hemispheres of the globe
wn46 TIL that there was a 41 year old swedish man whose christmas tradition was to travel to a city 107 miles away from his, to then put his penis inside other peoples mail drop and yell “come and smell on a christmas sausage”
Rxa7 TIL that in 1993 Creedence Clearwater Revival’s record label sued former lead singer John Fogerty because his song “The Old Man Down the Road” sounded similar to “Run Through the Jungle.” Although Fogerty was awarded attorney fees, the judge found that “an artist can’t plagiarize himself.”