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TIL that The Krofft Brothers, of H.R. Pufnstuf game, sued McDonald's for copyright infringement

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e005 TIL that in 1967, German lab workers working with Ugandan monkeys came down with an illness. They then documented their own illness, and eventually they isolated the virus.
mxJYp TIL that the USSR has missiles pointed at a hot dog stand in the Pentagon because they believed it led to a top secret meeting room
OGvra TIL the device used to detect nuclear detonations is called a "Bhangmeter." It's not named after a scientist or a misspelling of "bang" - it's a reference to a Hindi word for cannabis, implying you'd have to be intoxicated to believe the sensor would function.
J1Rrv TIL the 1992 Fiorentina football shirt was used by the team for several months before people noticed it was covered in swastikas. It was withdrawn from use
P1yg TIL that LSD (acid) is not considered addictive by the medical community, is not known to cause brain damage, and has extremely low toxicity relative to dose. How low? There has never even been a documented human death from an LSD overdose.