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TIL that individuals who have even one psychotic episode after cannabis use have a 47% conversion rate to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

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yWKM TIL Any teenager in Philadelphia can get 10 condoms a month mailed to their house for free by the local health department.
gr1wD TIL that the "Lloyd's Bank coprolite" is the largest-recorded fossilized piece of human faeces in existence. It is about 1200 years old, 8 inches long, 2 inches wide and was dropped by a Viking who mainly subsisted on meat and grains.
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