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TIL Wil Wheaton suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.

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9wPVQ TIL Orson Welles once accidentally pelted his audience with arrows. Welles was doing Henry the Fifth in Boston and had set the archers to shoot offstage, but it was a rotating stage. Welles had noticed the problem but expected the Harvard students to not foolishly shoot into the crowd, he was wrong.
OpA1 TIL when the Grateful Dead played “Playboy After Dark” in 1969, the band’s LSD supplier ‘Bear’ dosed the coffee urn that everyone on set was drinking from, including Hugh Hefner. Hefner later wrote a letter to Jerry Garcia thanking the band for the enjoyable experience.
oBODK TIL most utility poles are buried 6 feet deep. In fact, utility poles are buried according to a specific formula: 10% of the pole’s height plus two feet equals the appropriate depth of burial. A standard utility pole measures 40 feet, so a standard hole will go about 6 feet down into the ground.
neL9b TIL the term “tarmac”referring to the apron or any paved area at an airport, is a completely incorrect usage of the word - largely because that substance is rarely used for anything any longer.
P5PG TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was once saved from being hit by a train when a man grabbed him off the tracks. The man was Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth.