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TIL that when Steve Jobs took acid, he said “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life”

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ANoA4 TIL a 3,200-year-old tablet shows that ancient Egyptians took attendance at work and recorded absences. One type of reason cited for missing work was "wife or daughter bleeding" referring to menstruation because men were needed at home during this time to help with the housework.
loYoB TIL that in 2017, officers from Devon and Cornwall (UK) Police commandeered a double-decker bus, using the top deck to monitor motorists illegally using their mobile phones while driving. In two days, they caught 39 drivers using their phones and 36 not wearing a seatbelt.
xmKB TIL: George Washington died in 1799 when doctors drained more than half of his blood to cure a sore throat.
ZpVYY TIL the oldest newspaper in North America is the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph having been founded in 1764 as the Quebec Gazette. The newspaper still exists today
WBW9 TIL that Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Classification System, had “a persistent inability to control himself around women”. At Columbia “it was rumored that he asked for their bust sizes with their applications”; not true, but he did ask for photographs because “you cannot polish a pumpkin”.