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TIL that Albert Hofmann, the creator of LSD, liked it because it helped him contemplate humanity’s unity with nature, more than the hallucinations.

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jN76Q TIL of the once upper class Black community of Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, Florida. Chosen by city officials to be levelled - to build a multi-lane expressway through it during the 1950s and '60s - the community, once known for its elegance, sits devastated, largely boarded up and overgrown today.
5NQD TIL that the terms “hooker” and “sideburns” were popularized and invented respectively during the Civil War. General Joseph Hooker’s army was known to party and hire prostitutes, while General Ambrose Burnside’s facial hair spoke for itself
8aEgZ TIL that China experienced an episode of mango hysteria in 1968. Upon receiving them as diplomatic gifts, Mao had them distributed across the country where songs, poems, rallies and altars were built in the mangoes’ honor. A dentist was even executed for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
p80ZA TIL that the first recorded example of written Finnish dates back to c. 1450 and reads: "I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able to".
xQ11 TIL when the Supreme Court ruled against the Indian Removal Act, President Andrew Jackson ignored their decision and took Indian lands anyway.