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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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PYJOe TIL that the British Crown owns the copyrights to the King James Version of the Bible. Passed down through the reigning monarchs the Queen now possesses the rights to those specific translations.
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