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TIL that there is a very potent strain of marijuana called Tom Cruise Purple. It is reported to have hallucinogenic properties, and is sold in vials which have a picture of Tom Cruise laughing hysterically on the front.

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mxBQM TIL a computer virus discovered in 1991 was named the Michelangelo virus by researchers due to its time bomb feature activating the virus on March 6 of any year, a date that happened to coincide with the birth of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
5Yn0Q TIL Words like Juggernaut, Punch, Calico,Shampoo have been brought by the British Raj from India to the English language.
nXPY TIL George Orwell sent a copy of 1984 to his idol, Aldous Huxley. Huxley wrote Orwell a letter, in effect saying, “Good book, but the future will be more like what I wrote in Brave New World, not 1984.”
YpjX7 TIL that Nicholas White, a Business Week employee, spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator, even though he signaled an alarm, and there was surveillance video inside the elevator cab
X0b8P TIL Hair Club for Men's first TV ad was "a standard ad with attractive people doing active things" that failed. So their next ad was less professional looking, with the founder stating "I'm not only the Hair Club president but I'm also a client." It worked. Within a month, they received 10,000 calls