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TIL that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter (pictured) drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the CIA

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nebrr TIL that Tom Hanks learned the accent of the kid who played young Forrest Gump by talking to him for hours and hours, instead of having the kid learn the accent of Tom
0wA65 TIL that all airplanes must have a green light on their right wing, and a red light on their left wing, to indicate the direction of travel to other planes.
6ERG8 TIL In the 19th Century, Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist, estimated that the speed of a single thought can travel along our nerves up to 120 m/s, or ~270 mph.