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

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Ny0M TIL Ernest Hemingway once out drank 14 Chinese army officers. “Slowly officers grew scarlet in the face and slid beneath the table; others went green-white and fell as if shot,”…Hemingway, by contrast, “was planted on his feet like Atlas.”
kOn9g TIL The BBC were infamous for "wiping" tapes of their shows (fans of Doctor Who know this story very well). But it's even worse then you'd expect. It's estimated 60 to 70 percent of all BBC programming produced between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s was deleted.
OJOY TIL American soldiers would wrap suicide attackers from the Moro Muslim group in the Philippines in pig skin to make them unfit to go to heaven and deter potential future attacks by them
JYAAl TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
GVJQ TIL during shooting of the Titanic, 80 people working on the film were poisoned-including James Cameron. The perpetrator was never caught