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TIL The Olympian Who Lost His Gold Medal After Testing Positive For Cannabis Later Created a Popular Medicinal Weed Strain Called 'Ross's Gold'

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LQ1NZ TIL Einstein didn't believe it was possible for 2 photons to communicate instantly, no matter how far apart they were, because it would mean that information is travelling at a speed faster than light. It turns out that Einstein was wrong: it's possible, and it's known as quantum entanglement.
7EZM TIL Cliff Burton won a cards game and chose to sleep in Kirk Hammett’s bunk. The following morning’s tour bus accident left Burton the only victim.
RwV1 TIL in 1990, parents sued Judas Priest over their son’s suicide, claiming a song contained the words “Do it” when listened to backwards. Judas Priest won the case, and said if they did add subliminal messages, it would have said “Buy seven records”
VMNLG TIL most of the Total War franchise's music was composed by Jeff Van Dyck. His wife Angela van Dyck even features in some of Rome Total War's songs like Forever, which plays during the credits and Angela also wrote the lyrics for the song Divinitus, written in quasi-Latin
LknGd Til A man was stabbed in Disney land, and Disney land didn’t call the medical assistance because it would “ruin the magic”.