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TIL it's legal in New York to own a monkey if you're paralyzed and the monkey is trained to perform household tasks for you

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4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
E1KRW TIL: Templars we're rounded up and killed on Friday the 13th
MeGZm TIL The first recognized example of a game machine was unveiled by Dr. Edward Uhler Condon at the New York World’s Fair in 1940. The game,based on the ancient mathematical game of Nim, was played by about 50,000 people during the six months it was on display and the computer winning 90% of the games
rE6w TIL Steve Jobs called his LSD experiences “one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life”
YpgPB TIL Hitler and the Nazis were often high on methamphetamine, and this is credited for their success in the 1940 invasion of France - because they didn't have to rest. Hitler himself was also regularly injected with other hormones and steroids made from animal extracts.