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TIL the first person to discover the effects of LSD took it by accident, and took it a second time to confirm the cause of the hallucinations

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loQN5 TIL the last blockbuster store is selling merch to help stay in business, and they have an online store
gr5bX TIL that in the event of a U.S. military draft, members of the Florida State Guard (a state-level Civil Defense organization) are immune from conscription
J1j18 TIL The worlds largest cruise ship Wonder of the Seas is 35% longer and 127% wider than Titanic.
vPlZB TIL that in 1999, Jim Henson’s children bought Charlie Chaplin’s historic 1917 studio in Hollywood for $12.5M as the new home of The Jim Henson Company. Once Chaplin’s and briefly Hanna-Barbera’s first studio, it later housed A&M Records. A Kermit statue as Chaplin’s Tramp now stands at the entrance
BgVbD TIL that sci fi franchises popular around the world today like Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Mad Max, and even anime like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Akira are directly inspired by a small French porn comic of the 1970s by the name of Métal Hurlant.