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TIL Grateful Dead concerts were so crucial to the LSD market that Jerry Garcia's death in 1995 contributed to a nationwide decline in LSD use.

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KQZ6 TIL Father Damien, a Catholic Priest, volunteered to help an island leper colony, saying “I make myself a leper to be with the lepers.” There he turned shacks into painted houses, cultivated farms, and started schools. Doing so he contracted leprosy himself. He was canonized a saint in 2009.
X0wGr TIL: At least 1/3 of the US Cycling Team in 1984 LA Olympics were doped with a process called "blood doping". The American Cycling team won 9 medals.
loAl5 TIL William Burroughs shot and killed his wife in Mexico city. He spend 13 days in jail as his brother was bribing mexican officials in order to let him off the hook and delay the trial until he managed to flee back to the US. The incident is what sparked his career as a writer
neyrW TIL in the early 1920s a prostitute died at a drunken orgy hosted by President Warren Harding.
9YONM TIL Cincinnati Built a Subway System 100 Years Ago–But Never Used It