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TIL Comedian Steven Wright is an Oscar winner

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6EJk7 TIL that in 1959 Robert Hunter of The Grateful Dead and Ken Kesey who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest signed up to be CIA test subjects and we're given LSD. They enjoyed it so much they would take it from the facility and give it to their friends for recreation.
loKVa TIL: In 1933, the British explorer Frank Smythe attempted to climb Mt. Everest alone. As the time passed, due to isolation he became so convinced that someone else was accompanying him on his climb that he offered a piece of cake to his invisible climbing partner.
v1YAR TIL Taco Bell has locations in 22 countries including China, Iceland and Guam but none in Mexico. They tried but failed twice to start locations there. Mexicans had trouble identifying what certain items were because of their inauthentic names. They had to rebrand the “Crunchy Taco” to a “Tacostada”
VnnD TIL people of the British Virgin Islands are British and EU citizens but the official currency is USD, and they drive on the left side of the road but the cars are left hand drive
1akrD TIL During early days of telescopic observation, the light regions on Mars were thought to be continents, so they were given names that described land masses. On a night of bad seeing without steady air, Mars is a boiling orange blob