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TIL that gunpowder was initially invented searching for an elixir of immortality

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PYbYO TIL that the US-Canadian Border was known by the Plains Indians as "The Medicine Line" for it's seemingly magical ability to keep US troops from crossing it.
E1Oow TIL about Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, begun abusing drugs, at one moment being hardly able to raise from a sofa for days on end. In 2011 he got back into swimming, and at the 2016 Olympics became the oldest swimmer to win a gold medal.
R5DG9 TIL in 2008, Playboy ran a nationwide search for a "Girls of the Olive Garden" pictorial. The mag already featured shoots for “Girls of McDonalds," “Women of Wal-Mart” and “Women of Home Depot.”
xVljw TIL that Nazi 'perfect Aryan' poster child was Jewish
Vlnk TIL that a there has been a book written from the perspective of a successful sociopath/psychopath about the intricacies of the life of someone with this condition called “Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight”. The book, for obvious reasons, was written under a pseudonym.