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TIL Hunter S. Thompson started QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery

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5VKLk TIL Portuguese Jesuit missionaries João Cabral and Estêvão Cacella became the first Westerners to visit Bhutan and Nepal in 1627
MAB TIL by 25 BC, ancient Romans developed a recipe for concrete specifically used for underwater work which is essentially the same formula used today.
oY0E TIL that during the Normandy Allied Invasion Bill Millin, a Scottish Piper, played his bagpipes as he walked the beach while the carnage erupted around him. He later asked captured German prisoners why they hadn’t shot at him. They said they thought he was on a suicide mission and was clearly mad.
BeeK TIL in 2001 a Los Angeles man, upset at the poor exit signage on the 110 Freeway, modified an overhead sign under the cover of night. Caltrans investigated it, approved of the worksmanship, and left it up for eight years.
KYR5R TIL on New Year’s Day 12 years after the Nuremberg Trials, chief psychiatrist Douglas Kelly committed suicide in front of his family. He ingested potassium cyanide as had Hermann Göring hours before his hanging. Kelley had a history of dark moods and had admired Göring’s control over his own death.