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TIL Chocolate Milk Was Invented in Jamaica, not by Sir Hans Sloane

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JYldl TIL that Ed King, who played guitar for the California psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints") left that band and became guitar/bass player for Lynyrd Skynyrd, including writing the opening riff for "Sweet Home Alabama" and co-wrote several other of their hit songs.
rN0b4 TIL Wunderlust Tours in Guyana began offering tours to site of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in January 2025. The 2 Day tour begins with tourists flying into the same airstrip taken by Rep. Leo Ryan
ZEp TIL that despite rising US government spending on the Drug War, opiate production has increased by 380%, Heroin has gotten cheaper and more potent, Crystal Meth and Oxycodone abuse has exploded, and the HIV pandemic has accelerated in underground environments like prison
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