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TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story

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DQEBJ TIL suicide technically remained a crime in the UK up to 1961, and doctors dealing with suicides were meant to inform the police.
Yp17B TIL the US built a secret nuclear launch facility in Greenland which was kept a secret even from Denmark. When the ice sheet melts, close to 200000 liters of chemical waste will be released in the environment.
4klaa TIL of Julian the Apostate (nephew of Constantine the Great) the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who rejected Christianity & promoted Neoplatonic Hellenism, believing it necessary to restore ancient Roman values & traditions to save it from dissolution at the expense of Christianity.
9Y00m TIL if you could drive your car at highway speeds in a straight line off the Earth, you could reach the International Space Station in about 4 hours.
50KQ TIL Bob Ross was a Master Sergent in the US Airforce. He was required to be “mean and tough,” to be “the guy who scream at you for being late to work.” After 20 years he left the military and decided “he would never scream again.” 3 years later he started “The Joy of Painting”