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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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gj7L TIL in 2011 A Wisconsin Judge ruled that people do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume foods of their choice.
NbY6 TIL a Massachusetts principal did away with his school’s honors night in order to avoid hurting the feelings of kids with bad grades.
vPOgj TIL Andronico Luksic, the founder of Chile's wealthiest family worth approximately 18 billion, was able to greatly expand his mining business after a Japanese company mistakenly paid him 500,000 dollars for copper interest instead of the 500,000 Chilean pesos he had requested, roughly six times more
wVeE TIL that children being born are the first in two centuries to have a lower life expectancy than their parents, and the cause of it is obesity
neWPY TIL that the Italian painter Raphael was often accompanied by fifty scholars daily; when Michangelo greeted him one day, he said "You walk surrounded by an entourage like a general," and Raphael responded, "And you, you walk alone like an executioner."