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TIL on the evening of July 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy joked he wanted to smoke cannabis; so his mistress later brought him six joints to the White House. After three joints he felt no effects, but then closed his eyes and refused a fourth. "Suppose the Russians did something now," he said.

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R704l TIL Bayer sold blood meds contaminated with HIV. Their lab misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated meds in Asia and Latin America. As a consequence, people who used them developed AIDS.
e1Wb TIL that in 1974 fundamentalist Christians in Kanawha County were so upset over “immoral” books like “Autobiography of Malcolm X” being introduced to local schools they dynamited a school, attacked school buses with shotguns, and planted a bomb at a school board member’s home.
9Y0bQ TIL about Clive Wearing, a man who suffers from amnesia so severe, that he can only remember the past seven seconds of his life. All after being infected with a virus in 1985.
W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.
kXNW TIL Adult actress Katie Morgan initially entered the industry as a means to pay off her bail and plea bargain after being arrested in 2000 for transporting over 100 pounds of marijuana from Mexico into the United States.