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TIL: The NHL is the only professional sports league among ‘The Big 4’ that does NOT list Marijuana as a banned substance.

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6EkaZ TIL 8 Strikers were Shot during the Great Textile Strike of 1934. Strikers took refuge in the nearby cemetery where you can still see damage to gravestones from bullet strikes.
GYlW5 TIL carbon dating is useless to date anything after 1950 and will be useless for the forseeable future because of the amount of change in carbon-14 levels from human nuclear weapons detonations.
NXLKQ TIL that Tobe Hooper hoped the original cut of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre would get a PG rating due to the lack of visible gore. It received an X rating, only receiving an R once several minutes were cut. Certain theaters were told by police to not show the film or they could face morality charges
MXka TIL There is a table-saw that will halt immediately if touched by human flesh.
vnkR TIL Australia conducted biological warfare against its invasive rabbit population, reducing the population from 600 million to 100 million.