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TIL Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, took LSD on his deathbed and died tripping.

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G5Kj TIL in 1921, a Catholic priest was murdered by a Klansman for performing an interracial marriage.
0w9n1 TIL some potato chips are green because a section of a potato can break through the ground and start growing chloroplasts. Most of the time these green potatoes are separated from production due to solanine, a natural poison that can be produced from a green potato.
p8A5Q TIL that The Source and Candi Staton recorded "You Got the Love" for a diet product's video about a 900lb (408kg) man. The film was canned when the man dropped to 300lb (136kg). Candi Staton thought that was that until the song reached top 10 in Europe - by which time she'd forgotten how to sing it.
pPMA TIL that glass takes approximately 1 million years to decompose.
AnAB TIL of Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopal priest who was killed in 1965 after he threw himself in front of a shotgun blast targeting a seventeen-year-old black girl. Both he and the girl had been peacefully protesting for civil rights when they were attacked by a deputy.