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baKp TIL that on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, asked his wife to inject him with LSD and for her to stay by him, he died 6 hours later and she notes it as ‘the most beautiful death she has ever experienced’
b9WLp TIL the first border wall in the US was in NYC in 1625, back then Dutch colony: New Amsterdam. To keep the Indians out. On the tip of Manhattan. Now it's called Wall Street.
GAgQ4 TIL Shaquille O’Neal is a dubstep dj that goes by the name DJ Diesel
6EWkY TIL about First Lady Lou Henry Hoover who was the first American woman to earn a geology degree. She spoke 5 languages fluently and is the only first lady to speak an Asian language. She established the American Women's War Relief Fund, founded the National Women’s Conference on Law Enforcement.
VBVAB TIL the Dutch word "Swaffelen" (meaning to hit an object or person with one's penis, often repeatedly) won 2008 word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium.