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TIL LSD can help cure alcoholism

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e9mg TIL: In 1976, Eric Clapton made a speech at a concert to vote for Enoch Powell to stop Britain from becoming “a black colony”, to “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out”, and repeatedly shouted “Keep Britain White”. Rock Against Racism was formed, in response.
D1lGP TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language.
6mB8 TIL queen bees continues to mate until she collects more than 70 million sperm from multiple males.
daaK TIL around 1000 AD there was a Native American city with a population around 50,000, and that archeologists aren’t sure how it became a ghost town by 1300 AD.
BgELy TIL That Alcohol is considered one of the most harmful recreational substances, lower only than Crack, Heroin, and Meth. But much Higher than LSD, DMT, and MDMA.