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TIL Steve Jobs considered taking LSD to be one of the most important occurrences in his entire life

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neAB9 TIL that there's an encrypted art sculpture at the CIA Headquarters titled KRYPTOS. It's complete message has remained unsolved for over 30 years.
OGDd7 TIL the song “Fight for Your Right” by the Beastie Boys was written as a parody of frat culture, and the band was upset that people took it at face value.
D17MJ TIL that in 2005 an art collector had Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses play Rock Paper Scissors to decide who got to sell his twenty million dollar collection.
VRW4 TIL at some point in the last 80 years, the cost of a blowjob from a Chicago prostitute went from being more expensive to less expensive than vaginal sex, as the societal taboo against oral sex – which gave it scarcity value – declined. (The average price of each is currently $37.26 versus $80.05.)
BL9L TIL There are two Underground stations at Victoria in London that are connected and were built more than a century apart