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TIL Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD, has given erowid, a web forum dedicated to psychedelic substances, a signed sheet of blotter paper that can be had for a donation of $50,000

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RZD8 TIL that in 2009, snipers were deployed in Australia to protect a colony of little penguins from predators.
d80AE TIL that while the school curriculums of Scandinavian countries require that every child should learn how to swim, drowning is still the third most common cause of death among children in Sweden
epj4g TIL The Perfumed Garden is an Islamic text from the 15th century that delves into the practices of sensual pleasure and intimacy
78GDp Today I learned: A canary trap is a technique to identify an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to several suspects and observing which version gets leaked.
e6XJ TIL that the peak federal minimum wage in the US in 1968 and would be worth about $10.70 in today’s dollars. The current US minimum wage is $7.25.