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TIL according to Timothy Leary, Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was romantically linked to JFK, took part in a plan to avert worldwide nuclear war by convincing powerful male members of the Washington establishment to take LSD, which would presumably lead them to conclude that the Cold War was meaningless

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bx6E TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
R5vg1 TIL Switzerland constitutionally banned all monasteries and the Jesuits until 1973
ODg7 TIL: Composer Sun Ra once performed for catatonics and schizophrenics. One broke a years-long silence to ask him “Do you call that music?”
wm6J TIL that foxes were domesticated in the USSR and Russia using a 45 year breeding process
QJkLp TIL the University of Phoenix campus in Detroit has a record low 10% graduation rate.