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TIL today is the 70th anniversary of the discovery of LSD

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X0np6 TIL Amazon’s Alexa once started laughing randomly at night for no reason. Engineers had to fix it because customers didn’t sign up for a smart assistant and a free exorcism.
gMWa9 TIL that in 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner was able to get 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote to ban "Dihydrogen Monoxide" for his science fair project. His project aimed to prove that the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first prize.
AkWn TIL Australian man Bill Morgan, after suffering a heart attack leaving him clinically dead for 14 minutes, won a car off a lottery ticket, then during a re-enactment won $250,000.
4XNlb TIL that a Medal of Honor recipient from World War Two embarrassed a sitting US senator (who was also a KKK member) by publicly praising the efforts of African-American veterans.
e0BRg TIL of Robert S. Abbott, who founded 'The Chicago Defender' in 1905 for just $7. With the top circulation of any Black-owned newspaper in the states it made him a multi-millionaire and contributed to The Great Migration. Thanking his ex-landlady for encouraging him, he gave her an 8 room house.