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TIL Dolph Lundgren had a Fulbright scholarship to MIT to study chemical engineering, and road-tripped up from NYC on a motorcycle and rolled onto campus with his then girlfriend Grace Jones on the back.

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Xo9E TIL there are no documented human deaths from an LSD overdose
v1QLB TIL that while the human body contains only 250g of ATP at any one time, more is created and used continuously such that we turn over more than our weights worth of it each day.
N7xv1 TIL: France has assassinated 22 African presidents since 1963
9YMnM TIL that camels and humans are the only non-aquatic mammals that do not eat their placenta.
DeaD TIL Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny and others) was involved in a near fatal accident that left him in a coma for 3 weeks. As he began to regain consciousness his first words were “What’s up doc?”