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TIL multiple 19th century French artists (including Alexandre Dumas, Charles Baudelaire, and Eugene Delacroix) were members of the "Club des Hashischins," a club dedicated to doing hashish and other drugs together and exploring their effects.

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a8wA9 TIL about the "Pilate Stone," a damaged block of carved limestone with a partially intact inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman province of Judea from AD 26 to 36.
Epdo TIL that prisoners on Greenland are allowed to leave their cells between 06.30am-09.30pm, work, visit relatives, have their own cell key, and use firearms.
7OYP TIL that the assassins of Japanese Prime Minister, Inukai Tsuyoshi, had originally planned to assassinate Charlie Chaplin who was a guest in his house, hoping to trigger a war with the USA. Chaplin, however, escaped this fate as he had gone for a sumo wrestling match.
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oywE TIL that in a gesture of solidarity with the starving troops in Stalingrad, the german commander, Kurt Zeitzler reduced his own rations to their level. After 2 weeks he had lost 26 pounds.