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TIL In 2022, with 38.7 Million Readers, AARP The Magazine Remains America’s Most-Read Magazine for the 5th Consecutive Year

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oRevo TIL Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles is still alive, and lives in the Center for Great Apes sanctuary in Florida, where his care is paid for by Jackson's estate
XEG68 TIL Economist John Maynard Keynes believed governments should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up in order to deal with unemployment and stimulate the economy.
YpRWG TIL that when Louis Réard introduced the modern two-piece bikini, no runway model would wear the risqué and revealing design, so he hired a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris to showcase it instead.
KOjjG TIL in Aliens (1986), Bill Paxton improvised Hudson's famous line "Game over man! Game over!" during a rehearsal, and James Cameron told him to keep it in.
KOZPG TIL of Albert Hofmann, who synthesized LSD. On 16 April 1943, he accidentally consumed some LSD and discovered its powerful effects. Three days later, he intentionally ingested 0.25 mg of LSD, whose effects he began to feel as he rode home on a bike. This was the first LSD trip.