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TIL to combat soldier fatigue and promote aggression the Nazis distributed Crystal Meth to soldiers

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4d7X TIL French Roast Coffee is made using rejected beans and roasted so long the sugars caramelize. The term French Roast is a fancy way of saying the crappy beans.
dlNd TIL Japanese green traffic lights are blue
ANQJw TIL about Garry Hoy. A Canadian Lawyer who tried to demonstrate that skyscraper windows at his law firm were in fact unbreakable by slamming himself into a window in front of a group of students. The Window frame gave way and he fell 24 floors to his death. The glass did not break.
16a1r TIL the unique “sizzling” bass sound of the iconic TR-808, which is now used in almost all pop music, is made by a specific set of rejected transistors. Because they were a mistake, the transistors, and therefore the 808 itself, cannot be reproduced.
6jgw TIL that Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson visited the US in 1965 and made a speech criticizing American foreign policy; the next day, President Lyndon Johnson invited him to Camp David, grabbed him by the lapels, and said, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”