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TIL The Beatles helped end racially segregated concerts by refusing to play at segregated events.

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6EJk7 TIL that in 1959 Robert Hunter of The Grateful Dead and Ken Kesey who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest signed up to be CIA test subjects and we're given LSD. They enjoyed it so much they would take it from the facility and give it to their friends for recreation.
loxnN TIL that “Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.
jeWE TIL that our eyes get puffy after crying because tissue around our eyes absorbs the overflow of tears - also learned that there are 3 types of tears.
915G TIL the 7 words that follow ‘primary(1), secondary(2), tertiary(3),’ are 'quaternary(4),’ 'quinary(5),’ 'senary(6),’ 'septenary(7),’ 'octonary(8)’ 'nonary(9),’ and 'denary(10).’
oBQgR TIL First contemporary study to debunk the myth, that homosexuality is a mental disorder, dates back to 1956. Evelyn Hooker's experiment paired a sample of 30 heterosexual men and 30 homosexual men on equivalent IQ, age, and education, finding no correlation between homosexuality and mental illness