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TIL that the person who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA was Francis Crick, who was high on LSD when he deduced it.

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jGvN TIL that the Dothraki language was designed to sound like Arabic to the untrained ear, or a mix between Spanish and Arabic to anyone who knows Arabic.
0d65M TIL, in 2000, the April issue of the Romanian edition of Playboy magazine published an article titled 'How to Beat Your Wife Without Leaving Marks on Her Body' as an April Fool's joke. It backfired, and women's organizations in Romania spoke up in protest.
yybw TIL Hugh Hefner, scrapbooking every saturday since high school, has 2685 books completely archiving his life (world record). He says scrapbooking helped him reinvent his life to be more interesting.
J1Br8 TIL the name and logo of the Philadelphia Eagles is derived from the National Recovery Administration's blue eagle logo.
5d1p TIL Tropicana OJ is owned by Pepsico and Simply Orange by Coca Cola. They strip the juice of oxygen for better storage, which strips the flavor. They then hire flavor and fragrance companies, who also formulate perfumes for Dior, to engineer flavor packs to add to the juice to make it “fresh.”