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TIL After Elvis performed Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Paul Simon, who attended the show, said “That’s it, we might as well all give up now.”

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xbLw TIL that a Chinese man survived a suicide jump because he landed on his “lover”, an inflatable sex doll, which he tried to take during his suicide attempt.
78pJO TIL Dictator Manuel Noriega was allowed by the CIA to traffic cocaine into the US from the 1960s-1980s, until he stopped cooperating with US foreign policy directives. A subsequent US invasion of Panama resulted and he was sentenced to prison.
Z80V4 TIL of Project Gutenberg. This Volunteer Effort has Digitized over 57,000 Books within Public Domain from throughout Human History for you to Read Online for Free
4OyN TIL in one of the earliest instances of investigative journalism (1872), a reporter with the New York Tribune had himself commited/sectioned in order to report on abuse in mental asylums. His work led to the release of twelve incorrectly diagnosed patients and a change in the “lunacy laws.”
NyXb TIL that according to a study by the British Academy of Sound Therapy the song Weightless by Marconi Union is the most relaxing song ever