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TIL they gave monkeys Angel Dust to study schizophrenia in primates

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LQVmP TIL one of the quietest rooms in the world is the anechoic chamber at Microsoft's headquarters. People can only handle being in the room for less than an hour because the only sounds come from your own body (heartbeat, bones grinding, etc.), and it becomes very disorienting.
aME0 TIL that some of the children who sang in Another Brick In The Wall launched a bid in 2004 for thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties
yQdMa TIL striking out four times in one baseball game is called a golden sombrero
xbQb TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances.”
9wrMX TIL that pack rat middens may contain materials for up to 50000 years