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TIL the car-accident scene in the movie Hereditary was inspired by a real accident

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N7ny8 TIL that every single material you touch is due to repulsion between atoms and electrons and not due to being in literal contact between them
8ya8 TIL that John Adams, the first vice president of the United States of America described vice presidency as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”
knWE TIL to be branded an outlaw meant that you lived without the protection or safety of the law, and thus you could killed or robbed with impunity.
kJJ8d TIL that Xanadu is an alternative name for Shangdu, the summer capital of Kublai khan and the yuan dynasty in general. The name Xanadu itself and its meaning as a metaphor for a place of opulence was popularized by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem about Kublai khan.
ADBrw TIL The Grateful Dead once dosed the crew of Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy After Dark' with LSD