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TIL the creator of MyPillow was a heavy crack user and his dealers once denied him sales cause he had been up for 14 straight days

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yVN7a TIL that F.D.R was directly responsible for founding The March of Dimes, which prompted the U.S. Government to place his image on the dime in 1946. The charity was started by friend of Roosevelt, Basil O'Conner to raise money for the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
X0Vor TIL that during Prohibition, many wineries would sell shipments of grape juice with instructions for home fermenting (which was perfectly legal). Here are some instructions from Lonz Winery in the Lake Erie region of Ohio.
oR9ro TIL of the Baghdad Batteries, three artifact estimated to have been made between 225BC and 650AD which are a fascinating possibility of ancient technology for generating electricity or performing electroplating
EmX TIL ZZ Top turned down $1,000,000 to shave their beards for a Gillette commercial.
EgYy0 TIL about the 'zombie ant fungus', A.K.A. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. The spores can permeate an ants exoskeleton, use it as a source of nutrition and take over its biological controls, forcing it to leave the colony and head for more humid climates to facilitate growth and release more spores.