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TIL that drug overdoses killed more Americans in one year than ten years of the Vietnam War.

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awpjy TIL while high on substances and during a meeting with a CBS exec in Germany, Ozzy Osbourne performed a Nazi goose-step on the executive's table before dipping his testicles in the executive's wine and then urinating in it. He only came to find out what he had done later by Sharon Osbourne.
gBl4 TIL 17-year-old Harvard student, Ted Kaczynski, was one of 22 subjects in the CIA-sponsored Project MKUltra. It focused on measuring people’s reactions under extreme stress. Assaults to their egos, cherished ideas and beliefs were the vehicle used to cause high levels of stress and distress.
awWrZ TIL that John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, were actually third cousins
9wnWG TIL About Le Pétomane (Fartomaniac) A Frenchman famous for farting whose act included squirting water from his anus, imitating cannon fire and thunder, and playing the ocarina with his butt. He performed his act for royalty and Sigmund Freud. Upon retiring from farting he opened a biscuit factory
JlNl TIL that a politician in Japan was assassinated by yakuza shortly after he announced an investigation into millions of dollars of off-the-book spending. No other politican has resumed his investigation.