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TIL Aldous Huxley was tripping on acid when he died

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Bgd4L TIL one of the earliest escape attempts to bypass the Berlin Wall was by Heinz Meixner in 1963. He removed a convertible's windshield and deflated its tires as low as possible. He, with his fiancee and her mother hidden, then drove up to the boom barrier, sped under it, and escaped into West Berlin.
vEPr TIL There is a trade agreement being secretly proposed in countries such as America and Australia, which would allow corporations to sue the government if they attempted to, in any way, lower their potential income, such as providing cheap alternatives to branded medicines.