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TIL that LSD cured a holocaust survivor from Auschwitz’s PTSD and allowed him to sleep for the first time in 30 years without nightmares

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gmX7 TIL that the entire LOTR trilogy, all Star Wars movies and all but one of the Harry Potter films fail the Bechdel Test, which tests for three requirements: 1. Two named female characters. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something other than a man.
65WZ TIL The term “surfing the Internet” was created in 1992 by author Jean Armour Polly. She came up with the term because her mouse pad had a picture of a surfer on it.
BgBQy TIL "Universal Binaries" for Darwin work on both Apple M1/2/3 chips and Intel chips
AQNg TIL Benni Cincle (The awkwardly dancing white girl from the “Friday” video) has since used her internet fame to found an Anti-bullying nonprofit called That Girl in Pink.
xVGXo TIL Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother was also assassinated, and his brother was found dead in a swimming pool at age 38.