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TIL David Bowie and Dennis Hopper once smuggled cocaine into a psych ward for Iggy Pop while wearing spacesuits

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w15P TIL in 1991, the little plastic ball in cans of Guinness won the Queens Award for Technological Advancement, beating the Internet and Email.
NXQAM TIL "Hypochondria" simply means "Regions of the Abdomen," once thought to be the source of morbid feelings
ne7lo TIL There Are 2 Pieces of Aluminum from the Destroyed World Trade Center on the Surface of Mars. They were quietly built into 2 of the Mars Rovers.
16prV TIL at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall of Sweden was the first athlete to be disqualified from the Olympics for drug use, after anti-dopng regulations were introduced by the IOC the previous year.
OQy1 TIL the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was first published to the internet in 1990 and is older than the first web browsers.