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TIL: Stephen Fry had a cocaine addiction

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m1ODM TIL that from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, many U.S. drug stores, grocery stores, and department stores had self-service tube testers in which customers could test vacuum tubes that were pulled from their malfunctioning electronic devices.
awmnJ TIL about a church located on what was formerly highway 666 in Ontario that asked the Ministry of Transportation to change the highway number so as not to be located on the 'Highway to Hell'.
Lk8kV TIL: The Black Death was responsible for the beginning of the end of European Feudalism/Manoralism. As there were fewer workers, their lords were forced to pay higher wages. With higher wages, there were fewer restrictions on travel. Eventually, this would lead to a trade class/middle class.
OoQn1 TIL a study found that after nine months of living in Hawaii, mainland students’ views on race shifted noticeably
VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.