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TIL that a retired police captain is the co-founder of a group to legalize drugs, and that he makes an ironclad case for it.

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kO89B TIL On April 30, 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov removed his own infected appendix at the Soviet Novolazarevskaja Research Station in Antarctica, as he was the only doctor there. The operation lasted one hour and 45 minutes and it was a success.
9Y8RX TIL you rarely hear Happy Birthday on TV because the song was copyrighted from 1935 to 2014. In 2014 Time Warner paid 14 million to release the song to the public domain rather than face a lawsuit over their aggressive ownership of it which was netting them 2 million a year.
jNROa TIL in 1988, a retired police officer found Cyril Smith, British MP with 144 accusations of child molestation and abuse, in a home with a sex offender and two drunk teenage boys. The officer was threatened to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act by the UK government. Nothing happened.
aMoM TIL that it LOTR, the scene where Viggo Mortensen kicks the helmet near a pile of orcs, he actually screams so hard because he broke two toes. They actually used the footage in the movie.
NXwRE TIL Travis the chimpanzee was given Xanax the day he attacked Charla Nash