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PLEJ TIL Samuel L. Jackson outshot Tiger Woods once at a golf tournament. Apparently he’s a phenomenal golfer.
OWoX TIL that Diana Ross, who sang “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” lost her ex-husband to a mountain climbing accident.
Z5pa TIL, in a 60’s government funded LSD study, “26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device,” [and more….]
M7De8 TIL in 1986 an American woman, Judith Richardson Haimes, who worked as a psychic had an allergic reaction after receiving an iodine tracer injection (for a CAT scan) that allegedly disabled her psychic powers. She sued the hospital and was awarded $600,000 for pain and suffering and loss of income.
pYogG TIL that Alfred Hitchcock had cameo appearances in nearly all of his films