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TIL Mexican drug cartels started using pimped out potato cannons to fire cannisters full of drugs over the border

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YGvZ TIL Eric Clapton was long-conned by a witch who got him to take herbal baths, smear his own blood, & chant midnight incantations, all with a phone call. She convinced him to fly to the US to have sex with a virgin (herself), began asking for money, then sent pregnant pics of herself to the tabloids.
78xGL TIL that the Wendel Family was an eccentric and reclusive New York real estate dynasty in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They wore outdated Victorian clothing and refused to install modern utilities. Ella, the last surviving sibling, was famous for her many poodles, all named Toby.
ANkN4 TIL That, until recently, people who spent more than six months in Britain from 1980 to 1997 were unable to donate blood because of an outbreak of "mad cow disease" in the area at that time
5Vwjn TIL about Oscar Micheaux’ 1920 film WITHIN OUR GATES which is the earliest known surviving feature directed by an African American as well as one of the oldest surviving rebuttals to the racism of D. W. Griffith’s film BIRTH OF A NATION
WkmA9 TIL about Helium Hydride, the strongest acid currently known. It is composed of a hydrogen ion bonded to a helium atom. It is so strong that it will protonate things like NH4+, HSO2+, H3O+ and HCO2+