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TIL that the daily routine of Hunter S. Thompson began at 3 pm with cigarettes, cocaine and scotch, and he would begin writing at midnight whilst tripping on LSD, snorting excessive amounts of cocaine, smoking marijuana, drinking constantly and watching porn.

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