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TIL the cast of Glee has 207 Billboard Hot 100 hits

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v9nB TIL the word “decimate” comes from the Roman army’s tradition of killing one out of ten soldier when a large group had committed a crime. The word literally means “removal of one tenth”, rather than devastation, as it means today.
9Yoop TIL psilocybin, the psychoactive chemical in magic mushrooms (psilocybin mushrooms), is being researched as a potential treatment for anxiety and depression in people with cancer diagnoses, for alcohol use disorder, and for migraines and cluster headaches.
E1mm7 TIL: In 1964, a Hollywood war movie called “A Yank in Viet-Nam” was filmed entirely in S. Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Wl7L TIL President Harry S. Truman’s administration purposely infected the people of Guatemala with syphilis after WW2.
PLAL TIL that millions of spiders completely cocooned trees in silk after the unprecedented 2010 flooding in Pakistan.