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TIL, what a horrifying place the world is.

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4lw TIL Anthropologie sells rocks with handles for $3,000
A71d TIL that THC (the main agent in marijuana) is legal in pill form in all 50 states, called Marinol.
awZWN TIL that during a 26-year affair with Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy did not divorce his wife. Publicists kept the affair secret outside of Hollywood. Even after he died in Hepburn's presence, they said Tracy had been alone. Out of respect for his family, Hepburn did not attend his funeral.
O8ge TIL that in Latin, the word for a “woman that earns” also means “prostitute”.
rNJR1 TIL that in 2004, a South Korean scientist claimed to have cloned a human embryo and created stem cell lines from it, only for the entire thing to be exposed as an elaborate scientific fraud that rocked the global scientific community.