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TIL Bob Marley, against popular belief, didn’t believe in smoking marijuana for recreation. He thought cannabis should be used for religious and medicinal purposes.

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JBWB TIL a small temple in India had secret vaults full of precious gold, diamonds, rubies worth $40 billion
p8dL4 TIL the US Army suppressed a movie on the psychological affects of war on veterans called Let There Be Light. It was made just after WW2 and wasn't released until the 1980s, over 30 years later.
R7EY8 TIL that footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.
4Xgmg TIL that at any given time in Kentucky, there are more barrels of bourbon aging (~5.3 million) than there are people (~4.5 million).
ADVZ4 TIL that instead of Santa, Catalonia has Tio de Nadal the shitting Christmas log. Traditionally, a family brings a log inside and the children “feed” it before Christmas. Then on Christmas Day they literally beat the shit out it, because if they fed it well enough it will shit out presents.