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TIL that soldiers in the German Army are allowed to disobey any order they think would violate human dignity.

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XejX TIL On the original release of the Velvet Underground and Nico’s eponymous debut album, you could peel the banana skin off the album cover, revealing a flesh-colored banana.
jKNa TIL in many states, you can be charged with a DUI even if the car is parked and you’re sleeping.
am1b TIL while Paul Revere had a famous 15 mile ride to alert the colonists of the British invasion, Israel Bissel rode 345miles starting that same night warning every town from Boston to New York to Philadelphia that the war had begun.
NXnXe TIL that George Miller, creator of the Mad Max films, was educated as a doctor and finished his residency before becoming a filmmaker
GmZ1 TIL that almost every renowned philosopher of Ancient Greece and Rome experienced what we know as “tripping” by being an initiates in the cult of Demeter. Initiates went through an annual rite of passage involving ergot, the founding compound of LSD.