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TIL it’s possible to hallucinate with only a ping pong ball, a red light, and a radio.

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lmeK TIL Thomas Hicks ran the 1904 Olympic marathon while drinking a mix of strychnine, egg whites and brandy which made him hallucinate and become sick. His trainers had to carry him over the finish line but he was still declared the winner, with the slowest gold medal time in Olympic marathon history.
ZgxG TIL a 14 year old boy started drinking gasoline in a quest to become like Optimus Prime.
R5k16 TIL: In very rare cases, certain Bottlenose dolphins are born with remains of legs.
0KDp TIL that former FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, liked to write on the margin of memos. One time, he read a memo w/ narrow margins, and replied “Watch the borders!” The next week was met w/ mass confusion, as multiple inquiries were sent to Border Patrol inquiring about any suspicious border activity.
0wboN TIL when Jack Gordon tried to bribe Senator Harry Reid back when he was the Nevada gaming commissioner, he notified the FBI and on the day of the sting, he screamed 'You son of a bitch!' and tried to STRANGLE Gordon, but the FBI agents pulled Reid off of him.