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TIL Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane once planned to dose Richard Nixon with 600mg of LSD while visiting the White House.

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KPNG TIL a US Marines airplane cut through a cable car wire at an Italian ski resort, which caused the cable car to plunge 80 meters (260 feet) to the ground, killing all 20 people onboard. One of the crewmen later destroyed incriminating evidence against himself and the rest of the crew.
b9bQa TIL that Bob Marley was buried with his Gibson "Les Paul" guitar, a soccer ball, a marijuana bud, a ring that had been given to him by the Prince Asfa Wossen of Ethiopia, and a Bible. A month before his death, he was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
4agb TIL in 1921 leftover WWI planes were used to drop firebombs on Tulsa’s black community resulting in the “Black Wall Street” burning to the ground.
ddVd TIL Peter Parker’s address is an actual home in Queens New York, and is owned by the Parker family
XErkD TIL actor Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player, often playing on set between takes. During World War II, he played correspondence chess with members of the military posted overseas or in hospitals. The FBI intercepted this mail and thought he was sending secret codes to Europe.