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TIL May 25 is Towel Day, A Celebration of Douglas Adams

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M8QW TIL That the Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company in history. Worth 78 Million Dutch Guilders, adjusted to dollars it was worth $7.4 TRILLION.
x4Dg TIL that 5.5 million people died in a famine under British rule in India. Around the same time, Lord Lytton, the Vice Roy of India was engaged in a fabulous celebration with over 60 000 guests to be wined and fed for the coronation of Queen Victoria as the Empress of India.
eBML TIL 85% of soldiers who commit suicide have never seen combat and more than half haven’t been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.
VM9Op TIL Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD, has given erowid, a web forum dedicated to psychedelic substances, a signed sheet of blotter paper that can be had for a donation of $50,000
bnl7 Today I learned that when the President is unmarried or his wife dies during his term, another female relative will become the First Lady. Three president’s daughters, two president’s sisters, two nieces and two daughters-in-law have been First Lady.