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TIL of Dr. Jolly West, who pioneered research into the use and abuse of LSD.

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kOykg TIL in 1984 a pair of brothers were surprised when the fictitious, “Johnny Klomberg”, they made up for a Baskin Robbins free birthday ice cream list, received a Selective Service notice by mail a few years later reminding “Johnny” that he was almost 18, and it was time to register for the draft.
4XZLb TIL that Yoda’s appearance was based on his own creator, Stuart Freeborn, who modeled Yoda after his own likeness.
VM4wG TIL in 1590 there was a Hungarian noblewoman named Elizabeth Báthory, aka Countess Dracula. She has the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer of all time. The highest number of victims cited during her trial was 650, most of them servant girls aged 10 to 14 years
P1ePO TIL that Steven Spielberg was rejected from USC's film school. He later became a trustee and large donor to the university.
m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.