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TIL the FBI kept a list of D&D players as part of its hunt for the Unabomber

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ryJx TIL: Phantom time hypothesis states that historical events between AD 614 and 911 are either wrongly dated or didn’t occur at all.
6EPGZ TIL that Purple Passion Fruit (Passiflora incarnata) not only is used as herbal medicine. You can dry and use the leaves to make tea and can also smoke the dry leaf. Study’s shown that the extract from the plant performs as well as some benzodiazepines but with fewer side effects.
E1Py7 TIL a 38 year old woman named Joyce Vincent died in her London flat watching TV, and her body lay undisturbed until almost 3 years later when city officials came to repossess the apartment due to unpaid rent.
WkJrN TIL: J. Edgar Hoover opposed Japanese Internment Camps. Saying the decision was “based on public and political pressure, not factual data”.
1yA4 TIL One in four soldiers during WW2 admitted to pooping themselves during combat.