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TIL Cary Grant said LSD achieved what yoga and meditation could not. Bonus: he sued Chevy Chase for slander

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4krDR TIL Michael Phelps has won a record 23 Olympic gold medals; No other Olympian has won more than 9.
4krR TIL that Socrates’ would walk, according to historians, with “ a swagger so intimidating that enemy soldiers kept their distance” and “barefoot and unwashed, carrying a stick and looking arrogant”
0dpMy TIL that the creators and writers of John Constantine have reported seeing him in real life. Alan Moore even claimed that Constantine told him "I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any c*nt could do it."
NryJ TIL Burger King’s New French Fries Took Ten Years to Develop
ek16 TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times before you got pure alcohol.