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TIL Owsley Stanley, the soundguy for the Grateful Dead, was the first person to mass produce LSD, distributing over 1.25 million doses in just two years.

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KO8N9 TIL Hasbro has trademarked the smell of Play-Doh. It is described as a “sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.”
m48O TIL in 2011, when Donovan McNabb signed with the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Kluwe agreed to change his jersey number on the condition that McNabb make a $5,000 donation to charity, to mention Kluwe’s band a total of 5 times during McNabb’s press conferences, and to buy him an ice cream.
VMdg8 TIL that generally speaking, a Dane speaking Danish can understand and be understood by Norwegians speaking Norwegian, and Swedes speaking Swedish. This is because the languages of Scandinavia are considered "mutually intelligible".
X0vmQ TIL That .tv is the Internet TLD for Tuvalu which grosses the government of Tuvalu 8.4% of their revenue with GoDaddy signing a 10-year contract in December of 2021 to manage the domains registrations.
P1r1V TIL that octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim. 🐙 Octopuses have a unique circulatory system with three hearts: two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.