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TIL a study gave LSD to 26 scientists, engineers, and other disciplines, and they produced a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device, a new design for the vibratory microtome, and a space probe experiment designed to measure solar properties, amongst others.

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nepVW TIL With only two clubs, the smallest football (soccer) league in the world is the Isles of Scilly Football League on the Isles of Scilly, 40 km southwest of the English mainland.
p8rEZ TIL Anti-Depression Pharmaceutical companies can choose which studies they submit to the FDA, allowing them to claim higher effective rates than the totality of studies suggest.
gMX6D TIL Theodore Roosevelt opposed putting the phrase "In God We Trust" on money, not because of secular concerns but because it would be "unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins"
WkMWd TIL that in 2007, three cases of perfectly preserved whisky were discovered, frozen into the ice for a beneath Shackleton’s base camp at Cape Royds. These were personally ordered by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1907.
ANlwg TIL the architect of the Sydney Opera House left midway though construction and never returned to Australia. He died some 40 years later having never seen his work.