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TIL Andrew Carnegie offered the Filipino people $20 million to buy their independence from the US, but nothing came of the offer

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pvXN TIL that Owsley Stanley singlehandedly ignited the psychedelic scene in the sixties by producing over 1 million doses of LSD from a makeshift bathroom laboratory in Berkeley.
69P4Y TIL There's An Interactive Map Showing Every Tornado Touchdown In the United States From 1950-2021 And It's Searchable By Address, Rating F0-F5, Fatalities, Etc. 🌪️🌪️🌪️
16a8V TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra's programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.
b9GPp Today I learned that placing any items (which are not USPS letters with proper postage paid) in a mailbox is a federal crime in the USA
ep6r4 TIL that it is illegal to possess or collect eagle feathers in the United States, and only members of a federally recognized native American tribe may legally possess them.