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TIL Willie Nelson smoked weed on the roof of the White House with Jimmy Carter’s son.

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ADgmw TIL of Operation Foxley - an Allied plan to assassinate Hitler. It wasn't put into place because Hitler proved to be such a terrible strategist that the Allies decided the war would be over sooner with him in charge.
ne0vB TIL - in 1941 people in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon started a push to form a new US State called Jefferson. The counties for a couple weeks would "secede every Thursday," using rifles to interdict drivers on Route 99 and hand them copies of their proclamation of independence.
b9wKN TIL The "New England Vampire Panic" was an event in the 19th century where people thought that "consumption"(Tuberculosis) was actually the result of vampires. It got to the point where people would dig up those who died of Tuberculosis and stake them through the heart.
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D1kVg TIL that chimney sweeps use to use live geese to sweep chimneys.