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TIL North Korea is the only country where the possession, sale, and cultivation of cannabis is completely legal.

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mx68O TIL Mormonism's Joseph Smith bought Egyptian scrolls from a travelling mummy salesman, translating the undeciphered glyphs to reveal the Book of Abraham — holy scripture written by Abraham himself. The papyrus survived, and modern Egyptologists found it's actually a funeral text for a guy named Hôr.
b99dp TIL the only bloodshed in the Anglo-Swedish war occured when a Swedish general killed 30 Swedish farmers for refusing to fight.
GARmN TIL: Japan has the world’s second highest adoption rate, but almost all adoptees are adults.
Ood5R TIL until his death in 2020, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek displayed a C$49,000 bounced check on the wall of his house for his hosting duties on the 1981-82 Canadian-produced game show Pitfall, as a reminder of how his fellow Canadians did him dirty
4kdwN TIL that adding a pinch of sodium bicarbonate to the water helps peeling eggs so much easier.