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TIL that a case of mass hallucinations and insanity in a small French village in 1951 may have been caused by a secret CIA LSD experiment called Project Span

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pY6eG TIL that after Hawaii became a part of the United States, members of the Kawānanakoa family became part of political parties that would become the Democratic and Republican parties of Hawaii like David
GY4b4 TIL An earlier version of Disney's TOMORROWLAND movie was going to star Dwayne Johnson as a heroic test pilot accidentally shot forward into the future.
g0my TIL that the Pyramids of Giza were more ancient to the ancient Romans, than Rome is ancient to us.
xV6aD TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each and every rendering server after an animal. When a server completed rendering a frame, it would play the sound of the animal, so their server farm will sound like an actual farm.
yVKYM TIL that beginning in 1984, NASA administrator James M. Begg, who feared the number 13, stopped the sequential numbering of Space Shuttle flights in order to avoid that number. After STS9, the next shuttle flight was numbered 41-B using an arcane system based on the fiscal year.