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TIL that the first person to discover a full dinosaur skeleton was crushed and nearly killed by a landslide. She was also banned from The Geological Society Of London for being a working class woman.

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YBXZ TIL that Scientology has their own prison, where senior members are locked up for months to years.
LkWGZ TIL that NYC beekeepers noticed their bees making red honey, which led to an investigation that ultimately exposed the city's largest marijuana farm in the basement of a Brooklyn cherry factory
g4O9 TIL in 1945 to mitigate the impacts of German V2 rockets, British Counterintelligence released false reports of rockets overshooting London, subsequently causing the Germans to readjust and fall short of London for the remainder of the war. [26:00 min mark]
mEdE TIL that strawberries today are bred to be bigger and look more delicious but on average, taste worse than they did 100 years ago.
06dA TIL MAPS is undertaking an eight-year, $18.5 million plan to make MDMA into an FDA-approved prescription medicine by 2021, and is currently the only organization in the world funding clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.