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TIL that drug smugglers have SUCCESSFULLY used carrier pigeons to smuggle drugs. Wow.

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v1xpD TIL that the reason why bus seats looked ugly is to hide stains and graffiti.
ANbEn TIL that at Woodstock festival in 1969, Jimi Hendrix performed on the very last day to an audience of fewer than 50,000 people, as of the monumental crowd of 500,000 attendees present when the festival started three days before, vast majority has already left
nWGwB TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals
DQ1lg TIL amidst early concerns about leaded gas, the engineer who discovered tetraethyllead as an additive demonstrated its 'safety' by pouring it over his hands and inhaling its vapor, stating he could do this every day without issue. He later took a leave of absence due to lead poisoning.
0yZA TIL that several long-duration Russian cosmonauts have reported that months after coming back to Earth, they occasionally let go objects in mid-air, still expecting them to float.