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TIL there are no documented human deaths from an LSD overdose

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jNLDp TIL 13-yr-old Canadian boy Briar MacLean shoved a knife-wielding bully away from a classmate. School officials put Briar in detention and phoned his mother to say that he was wrong to act on his own, and they didn't "condone heroics." His mom rewarded her son & his friend with a trip to Disneyland.
mxkQE TIL CapriSun is named after the Italian island Capri, where the sun shines almost whole year.
D9WY TIL that after the 1991 START I treaty between the US and the USSR, the US chopped 365 B52 bombers into 5 pieces each using a 13,000lb steel blade dropped from a crane. It then left the pieces there for 3 months so that Russian satellites could verify their destruction.
VMelZ TIL Charles Simonyi was the first billionaire to go to space. Simonyi, a software architect and early Microsoft employee, paid a total of $60 million for two trips to the International Space Station. He entered orbit and spent a total of 4 weeks in space.
Eg4JV TIL: Scratch-off lottery tickets can continue to be sold even after the grand prize advertised on the card has already been claimed