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TIL Aldous Huxley asked for LSD on his death bed and died whilst tripping

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b9E9 TIL at serial killer Carl Panzram’s execution, when asked if he had any last words, he said, “Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!”
6vdw TIL Thousands of shipping containers a year become “large floating objects” in the ocean.
D6Nr TIL that a “knight in shining armor” could be used as a slight since if the amor was shining he was not tested in combat.
o9oW TIL while in college Deion Sanders played in the first game of a double header in baseball, ran a leg on his track teams 4x100 meter relay, and then came back and played the second game of his double header all in the same day. He is also the only person to play in the super bowl and world series.
4Xvlo TIL In 1917, people were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, while the malaria was cured quinine. The man who developed this treatment, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, received the nobel prize for it.