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TIL in 1955, attempting to stand out as a journalist, Dan Rather did heroin and documented his experience.

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M7wO7 TIL when the US $100 bill was released, it was worth $3198 in today’s money
mVZP TIL the cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names, with over 40 in English alone.
xkL0 TIL the leading cause of a death for a white capuchin monkey in the wild is being murdered by another white capuchin monkey.
GL7G TIL Tim Russ aka Star Treks Lt Tuvok was also the trooper in Spaceballs with the famous line “We aint found shit”
5VV1B TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the "Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands", a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.