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TIL that Brigham Young was once a distiller
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TIL that a monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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TIL Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD, has given erowid, a web forum dedicated to psychedelic substances, a signed sheet of blotter paper that can be had for a donation of $50,000
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TIL gunshot wounds to the genitalia account for up to 5% of all military traumas
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TIL that Hugh Thomson, the man who during the Vietnam War had landed a helicopter in the line of fire to confront and stop American troops who had by that point killed close to 500 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre, was labeled a traitor by Congress and ordered not to speak about the event.
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TIL of the Amesbury Archer (Amesbury pronounced Aims-bree), a skeleton of a Bronze Age man discovered where some new houses were going to be built.