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TIL that Timothy Tyler was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at 25, for selling LSD to a police informant.

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QJwE9 TIL that the movie (The Men Who Stare at Goats) was loosely based on an investigation into attempts by the U.S. military to employ psychic powers as a weapon.
yQXpw TIL about the Crypt of Civilisation time capsule at Oglethorpe in Atlanta, the oldest millennial time capsule conceived in 1936 that is set to be opened in 8113
R77K6 TIL 20 minutes spent on the London Underground's Northern Line is as bad for your lungs as smoking a cigarette.
4kOOJ TIL about Project West Ford, a Cold War project done by MIT on behalf of the US military. It was an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere around the Earth by launching millions of copper needles into orbit.
5YKWR TIL that between 1958 and 1967 Charles Lindbergh (born 1902) secretly fathered seven children with three women in Germany. He would visit the children once or twice a year but used the alias Careu Kent and they did not learn his true identity until a decade after his death.