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alJo TIL: Rolling Paper company RAW has a separate portion of their company dedicated to humanitarian efforts. This includes digging wells, rebuilding/refurbishing older wells, leading community initiatives in rainwater collection, and sustainable year-round harvesting, just to name a few
5lMk TIL that in 1959 a psychiatrist placed 3 patients all convinced they were Jesus on the same ward for 2 years.
Z87Xo TIL that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie posthumously saved a girl’s life by having written in one of her stories about a rare poison. That same poison was killing this girl in real life, and the doctors had no clue, but a nurse happened to be reading that story at the time.
LQmPZ TIL WWE commentator Sean Michael Coulthard, also known as Michael Cole, worked as a journalist for CBS Radio covering the Waco siege and the Yugoslavian civil war.
dY7d TIL early NYC dive bars had no glasses, only barrels of booze connected to rubber tubes. For three cents you were allowed to drink till you ran out of breath.