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TIL Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls was one of the first members of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in WW2, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant before being honorably discharged.

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xVjZ5 TIL the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad, was so frugal that he would regularly pocket salt and pepper packets at restaurants, reuse teabags, and drove a 1993 Volvo. He was worth $58.7 billion at the time of his death
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pJjG TIL The Johns Hopkins University conducted a study of mushrooms with 36 college-educated adults (average age of 46) who had never tried psilocybin nor had a history of drug use. More than two-thirds reported it was among the top five most spiritually significant experiences in their lives.
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8b7P TIL in a 3-day-long 2002 theater hostage situation, Russian forces pumped an unknown gas into the ventilation system that caused everyone inside to fall unconscious. Troops were able to kill the 40 militants while they were blacked out, saving nearly 800 people with minimal casualties.