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TIL In April 2021, the oldest known bottle of bourbon, Old Ingledew Whiskey, once owned by J.P. Morgan was carbon dated to 1763-1803 and sold at auction for $137,000.

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gmBD TIL William Banning (father of a soldier who was killed in the Korean war) sent his son’s purple heart, and an angry letter to Harry Truman, blaming him for his son’s death. Both items were found in Truman’s desk after he died 20 years later.
xVAmw TIL Folk Singer Phil Ochs was paranoid that the FBI was spying on him, saying, "I'm a folk singer for the FBI" in 1966. In reality the FBI had hundreds of pages on file, but Ochs never committed a federal crime. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976.
8M7V TIL a study gave LSD to 26 scientists, engineers, and other disciplines, and they produced a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device, a new design for the vibratory microtome, and a space probe experiment designed to measure solar properties, amongst others.
rNJKM TIL of mondegreens, a mishearing of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. The national anthem of the U.S. is highly susceptible to the creation of mondegreens, as "O say can you see" has been misinterpreted as "José, can you see", and "by the dawn's early light" as "by the donzerly light"
P71w TIL The Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favored.