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TIL: A Japanese customs officer planted marijuana in a traveller’s suitcase, forgot who it was and the sniffer dogs missed it

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8arPX TIL Courtney Love, as a five year old, appeared in the band & crew photo on the back of the Grateful Dead's 1969 Aoxomoxoa Album.
VMpak TIL water is not actually flavorless but more close to sour in the taste pallet
9Ynep TIL Two men killed in the collapse at the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. Their bodies have not been recovered 10 months after the accident. Robot being used to aid in the recovery effort.
ONNX TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was present or near for the Assassinations of three America presidents (his father, Garfield and McKinley). He once refused a presidential invitation saying “I’m not going… because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present”
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