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TIL about Drapetomania, a "mental illness" made up in the 1850s to explain why slaves might want to escape

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M7A90 TIL in 1969, after an argument between the 4 Beatles members at London’s Olympic recording studios, 3 left. Paul McCartney stayed, where he encountered Steve Miller, and together they recorded "My Dark Hour." Paul played drums on the track, which helped him release all his anger from the argument.
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.
VMkxk TIL: Florida has a law called Sunshine law. Which allows meetings, records, votes, deliberations and other official actions to be available to the public. Which is why you always hear about crazy things happening there. The local news can provide details of crimes committed that other states cannot.
v1Jjj TIL a woman sued CBS, Showtime, and the New York City subway system because an ad for the show "Dexter" was so scary that it made her fall down a flight of stairs.
d8NDE TIL of Paul Erdős, a Hungarian mathematician who had a lifestyle of living out of a suitcase and traveling as a lecturer.