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TIL there is a wiki list of every single problem solved by MacGyver and how he did it.

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5YylP TIL that Absinthe, aka The Green Fairy, a spirit once particularly popular within the French artistic community, was widely banned in the early 20th century due to its alleged hallucinatory effects believed due to ingredient thujone. The US ban was lifted in 2007 but the drink must be thujone free.
eB1b TIL that early Renaissance artists were electrified when a young Roman fell through a cleft in a hill and rediscovered Nero’s Golden House. Subsequent tourists to the spot include Michelangelo, Raphael, Casanova, and the Marquis de Sade, all of whom left graffiti in the ruins.
xVaLD TIL of Buckethead, a musician who wears a KFC bucket on his head and a mask on his face and can play an electric guitar one-handed, to a degree.
woYRY TIL a monk was killed in around 391 AD when he leapt into the arena to stop a gladiator fight, which led to the emperor issuing a ban on gladiator bouts throughout the Empire.
wnOE TIL that the Book of Mormon suggests that there were donkeys, cattle, horses, oxen, sheep, pigs, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, figs, silk, steel, brass, scimitars, and chariots in Pre-Columbian America. None of them existed in America before Columbus.