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TIL that Mormon scripture teaches you to distinguish between angels and the devil by offering to shake hands (you won’t feel anything if it’s the devil).

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yVNYV TIL Calvin Collidge Jr. died as a result of a blister after playing Tennis at the White House without socks
AKmg TIL at school, Richard Branson’s headmaster said he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire
9YpY6 TIL the verb 'to snipe' originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where hunter skilled enough to kill a particularly elusive bird, the snipe, were called 'snipers'. This is also the origin of the term 'snipe hunt' to describe an impossible task.
QJQdp TIL about "The Whole Shabangs" potato chips, available almost exclusively from US Prison system commissaries. Ex-cons consider these chips to be the best chip out there, and a high-point of their incarceration. Many end up dismayed and disappointed at their lack of availability "on the outside".
GYpYj TIL that Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD, dosed himself at exactly 4:20pm on Apr. 19, 1943, and then went on a bike ride.