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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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o6K7 TIL in 2016, Amsterdam Police officers broke down a door to rescue a woman in lingerie standing listlessly at a window. Worried she may be hurt, they first tried to get her attention by ringing the doorbell and banging on the door. They then broke the door down to discover she was a blow-up sex doll
b9xO4 TIL Alf's Imperial Army, a New Zealand organization devoted to "pacifist warfare". Members gather to battle using strictly non-harmful weapons, such as newspaper swords and cardboard shields.
69bX TIL Dave Grohl was invited to join “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” in 1994, but declined due to the upcoming debut album of Foo Fighters.
a868N TIL the only in-flight structural breakup of an airliner to ever be caused by air turbulence alone was a case of a plane flying directly through a tornado
od6A TIL the oldest living tree is a Norway Spruce that is 9,550 years old, which makes it roughly 3,500 years older than the invention of writing.