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TIL that Bob Marley’s last words to his son Ziggy were “Money can’t buy life”

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8aGV4 TIL that even the typographer who designed Comic Sans only used it once, and that was to send a letter to Sky for his broadband problem.
kOrkm TIL almost an entire French town in 1951 was poisoned by ergot, the fungus LSD is made from. ”I am dead and my head is made of copper and I have snakes in my stomach and they are burning me,” screamed one man before trying to jump into a river
wLBmo TIL in pre-20th century European culture, red hair was commonly identified as the distinguishing negative Jewish trait. During the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish; and writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair
woylY TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States & mastermind behind the D Day attacks was the president of Columbia University.
neEyG TIL of a study published in 2000 that found the average high school kid in 2000 had the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s.