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TIL of the Millwall brick, an improvised bludgeon weapon made by rolling a newspaper and then folding it in the middle. It is named for the supporters of the English football club Millwall.

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91Am TIL That the CIA secretly tested LSD on American citizens because they believed the communists were using it as a method of mind control, and didn’t want to fall behind in developing the technology.
wLnE8 TIL of the Judgment of Paris. Before 1976, American wine had a terrible reputation internationally until an event where Stag's Leap, an American winery, won first place against French wines. In 2006 the same vintages were re-tasted and Stag’s Leap beat all French wines and took 2nd place.
RQG7 TIL a high school teacher wanted to teach his class how the German people accepted Hitler as their leader. So he created a Nazi-like movement at school in just 5 days.
nZrr TIL at one point of time lightbulb lifespan had increased so much that world’s largest lightbulb companies formed a cartel to reduce it to a 1000-hr ‘standard’
M78NW TIL One Disneyland Fan Has Ridden the Cars Land Radiator Springs Racers Ride Over 15,000 Times Since the Ride Opened in 2012