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TIL that Snoop Dogg has a charity to stop young kids from getting hooked on drugs or getting mixed up with gangs.

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0wNLy TIL The Unabomber was a subject in CIA MK Ultra experiments at Harvard that may have shaped his personality for his future bombings
oReNL TIL the idea for the silicone pop-it fidget toys came from a dream where the inventor walked through a field of breasts and poked all the nipples in. When she woke up she told her husband she wanted "a carpet of nipples that you can press from one side to the other."
xWB5 TIL in 2003 an Ohio man was convicted for the murder of his family in California after an entomologist identified that some of the bugs caught in the radiator of his car were local to California, thus refuting the suspect’s alibi.
A5Dl TIL the “broom method” was a method for detecting invisible flames. Firefighters would probe a room with a corn straw broom until it burst into flames, indicating the location of the fire.
Jwbj TIL that it is possible to create a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below by grafting a tomato plant stem onto a potato plant stalk (made possible by both being in the same family of plants known as “nightshades”).