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TIL Jazz musician Louis Armstrong regarded his marijuana consumption “a healthy alternative to drinking.”

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gMW9 TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet
6O9l TIL Arnold Palmer and Mister Rogers were high school classmates.
GQKN TIL during the Gold Rush, two stray dogs who were constantly seen together in downtown San Francisco became local sensations, with newspapers reporting on their activities, and enjoying an exemption from the extermination-on-sight city policy towards strays.
0QNL TIL There was a conventional bombing raid that surpassed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S. used 1700 tons of incendiary bombs to light a giant flaming X in the most populated part of Tokyo. The death toll is unknown, but it destroyed homes of over a million people, killing at least 100,000.
yVYae TIL In a 2014 report it was found that the mortality rate for professional wrestlers was significantly higher than that of athletes in other sports.