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TIL That Jimi Hendrix was thrown out of the Army for masturbating in the platoon area while supposed to be on detail”.

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rNy5M TIL about the Fermi Paradox which tries to reconcile math that shows a universe full of earth-like planets but we’ve yet to meet an Alien 👽
WL9X TIL that during WWII British soldiers consumed 72 million Adderall and that Methedrine helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain.
4e4b TIL in 2007, a Yazidi girl was stoned to death by her tribe because of her ties with a Sunni Muslim boy
YWe7 TIL the the $100 million in famine relief raised by Live Aid in 1985, was used to buy weapons and crush the opposition in Ethiopia’s civil war
PGdL TIL that, as of the 2016 playoffs, no Vermont high school graduate has ever played in the NBA.