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TIL some Colorado airports have marijuana amnesty boxes for passengers who want to dispose their medicine before a flight.

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v1NlK Today I learned the late, great voiceover god Peter Thomas of Forensic Files and numerous documentaries provided the voice of Philips brand Automated External Defibrillators. He said that Philips "wanted a voice that wouldn't scare people." Clearly they never watched Forensic Files alone at 3 AM!
YkA7 TIL Christopher Lee makes it his goal to read the Lord of the Rings once a year, every year in memory of his old friend J.R.R Tolkien
pMkG TIL that a children’s entertainer named Soupy Sales once asked the children who watched his show to send him “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their parents wallets and purses. He was suspended for two weeks when parents complained.
D1kbj TIL in 1996, Chex cereal had an FPS game developed based on DOOM.
8aMPX TIL the woman in the famous "Migrant Mother" photo was Florence Owens Thompson, a Cherokee woman and widow who came from Oklahoma to California with her second husband during the Great Depression. Her 10 children all survived poverty and starvation and later bought her a house. She lived to be 80.