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TIL Queen Victoria used cannabis to alleviate her menstrual cramp pain

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R57Ya TIL of John Graham, who hated his mother so much he hid 25 sticks of dynamite and a timed detonator in her suitcase before a flight. It was one of the first ever attacks of a commercial flight; all 44 aboard died.
Br5RW TIL in 1935, singing cowboy Gene Autry released a Western film in which he is kidnapped by an ancient underground civilization with robots and television.
W7GDA TIL about the Thanksgiving Day Disaster, leading to the deaths of 23 people watching college football in San Francisco in 1900.
ODn1 TIL that Phil LaMarr, the actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction whom was famously shot in the face by accident, went on to be the voice of Hermes on Futurama, Samurai Jack and many more animated characters.
krZm TIL The early comedy cinema joke of slipping on a banana peel was a reference to slipping in horse manure.