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TIL the Grateful Dead hired a “soundman” and chemist, Owsley Stanley, to mass-produce LSD for the band

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KOYAw TIL that in California, stripclubs are not allowed to serve alcohol if they display fully nude dancers.
e04n TIL that a man from Williamson County, Texas was jailed for 25 years for the brutal murder of his family while prosecutors withheld DNA evidence which proved him innocent. M. Morton is now free from jail and the prosecutors still hold their judiciary positions in the department
8aZVL TIL that in order to aid recruitment during WWI, the British allowed men from the same town to serve together in "pals battalions". This was stopped after the Battle of the Somme, in which casualties were so high amongst some units that almost the entire male population of some towns was wiped out.
KG96 TIL that the previews used to be shown at the end of a movie, which is why they are referred to as “trailers.”
K7NR TIL of a cat nicknamed “Unsinkable Sam” who survived 3 separate ship sinkings in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during WWII