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TIL the USA flag used in the late 50’s was designed by a 17 year old kid for a school project, to which he got a B-. He submitted the flag to congress as a joke and they accepted it.

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VMpNB TIL When applied directly to the eye, the Bëcchëte medicinal plant is reported by tribes to have the effect of giving the environment greater texture and dimension, making it easier to spot animals during hunting. The effects are reported to be long-term, lasting days or weeks, not just a few hours.
woEdP TIL: In WW2, the Japanese developed Defoliation Bacilli Bombs to launch biological attacks on farmland, reservoirs, wells and populated areas using anthrax, plague fleas, typhoid, cholera, and the bubonic plague. Unit 731 created it, and became bioweapons researchers and were not prosecuted.
oR4R TIL Billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, has donated over $2.3 million towards marijuana legalization
e0PeL TIL Sigmund Freud attempted to help his friend Fleischl-Marxow, who had become addicted to morphine and heroin due to chronic pain caused by having his thumb removed, by prescribing him medical cocaine. His friend became addicted to cocaine as well and continued to use morphine until his death at 45
QNkka TIL that Lawrence Pazder, author of 'Michelle Rememebers', withdrew his assertion of the abuse done on Michelle Smith by the Church of Satan when Anton LaVey threatened to sue for libel, as the church was founded years after the events of the book.