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"Ye" (as in Ye Olde Shoppe) is pronounced "The"

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Bkdx TIL that ketamine, psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD (acid), and MDMA (ecstacy) are being used to treat depression and mental illness.
7OZX TIL that a Formula One driver was killed when a bird flew into his face.
XnEE TIL that comedian Retta (Parks and Rec) is the niece of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia
78J9p TIL The largest swimming pool in the US was so large, lifeguards needed rowboats to patrol it. Fleishhaker Pool, built in San Francisco in 1924, measured 1,000 x 150 feet, contained 6.5 million gallons of water, and could hold 10,000 swimmers. In 1999 it was turned into parking for the zoo.
4XYnb TIL the Comanche code word for Adolf Hitler (used by the Code Talkers during WWII) was “crazy white man.”