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TIL the CIA once dosed one of their biological warfare scientists drink with LSD. The scientist decided he wanted to quit germ warfare and dedicate his life to something else. Nine days later he was thrown out of the 10th story of a hotel.

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JY0AV TIL of Sanford B. Dole, who became the President of the Republic of Hawaii, after a pro-American coup d'état overthrew the Hawaiian monarch. His government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States. His cousin founded the pineapple company that would become the Dole Food Company.
b6Rw7 TIL - The man who unsuccessfully treated President Garfield after he was shot, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss (First name Doctor), was expelled from the Washington DC Medical Society for his advocacy of homeopathy and his refusal to support the society's segregation of black doctors.
jdjR TIL that more than 40% of the Dutch Wikipedia (~800.000 articles) is made up of biology articles, mostly on insects.
MeX98 TIL Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper’s math teacher. Volel was a Haitian activist and political leader who fled Haiti in '65 and became a U.S. math teacher. When he returned to Haiti to run for president in ’87, he was assassinated.
JMeB TIL that a nomadic man travels the Pacific Northwest in a short bus offering free tea and friendship to anyone who will sit and converse with him in or around his bus.