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TIL Alduos Huxley was injected with LSD on his deathbed and essentially tripped into death.

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b81N TIL that conquistador Hernán Cortés founded a hospital in Mexico City to serve Aztec warriors who were wounded fighting the Spanish — and the hospital still operates today.
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jNOja TIL that the japanese army commited such horrible war crimes during WW2, that a nazi (John Rabe) is regarded as the chinese Oscar Schindler for saving up to 250'000 people from being killed
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