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TIL that shortly after his 101st birthday, Albert Hoffman, the swiss chemist known for discovering LSD, wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for his assistance in a study about the therapeutic uses of LSD. Jobs once famously said that taking LSD was one of the 2 or 3 most important things he'd done.

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