› added 2 years ago

463

TIL the cofounder of AA, Bill Wilson, believed LSD could help alcoholics stop drinking

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

p8ApZ TIL In a speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, he mentioned that African-Americans in slavery often called Canada "Heaven." It was a code name used by people who were part of the Underground Railroad
VVjm TIL : In 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan , an Armenian ten-time finswimming World Record-breaker. Saved 20 people from the bottom of an ice cold river when a trolleybus fell down of a dam wall.
Lvjp TIL that there is a 200 foot stuffed pink bunny with its entrails spilling out over a hill in Italy.
xVbY5 TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked the publishers of The Kinks' Lola whether songwriter Ray Davies would allow its parody, Yoda, to be released, he got a negative response. However, when Yankovic met Davies five years later, Ray told him that he had never been asked and allowed Al to release Yoda.
DQ8Jp TIL In 1778 there was a Doctors Riot also called the Anatomy Riot, which was caused by a reaction to physicians and medical students stealing bodies from graves, that left 20 people dead.