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TIL Hunter S. Thompson started QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery

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JY8Nm TIL Osama Bin Laden was a huge fan of The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGuyver. He also had an obsession with Whitney Houston, wanted to marry her and talked about having her husband Bobby Brown murdered.
v1bQr TIL that on Halloween 1989, a K-Mart employee in Florida chased down a shoplifter while dressed as Batman. He had been trying his costume on for a Halloween party that night when the shoplifter struck. He recovered four cartons of cigarettes and two videocassettes.
Nyp6 TIL there is actually a law in Arizona called the “Stupid Motorist Law”
wLeNE TIL that the producers of MASH wrote responses to hundreds of angry letters about the death of Henry Blake by explaining that a plane evacuating kids from Vietnam recently crashed with no survivors, asking if the viewers felt the same sorrow for the children as they did for a fictional man.
0wlj1 TIL clovers used to be part of lawn seed mix and are helpful in many ways to keeping a healthy lawn. About 60-70 years ago they became classified as a weed by savvy marketing teams to sell you products like nitrogen and weed killers, which clovers do naturally by themselves.