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TIL that George Carlin used to smoke pot while he was in the Air force and was court-martialed 3 times

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nWWnB TIL that in 2010, the LOLCat Bible Translation Project successfully translated the entire Bible into LOLspeak
PlLG TIL that the Grateful Dead wrote a letter to the Nixon Administration in 1974 offering advice on how to resolve the Watergate scandal. Their solution: “chrome the entire White House.”
WkjKL TIL a necropsy performed after the death of Secretariat in 1989 showed the thoroughbred had a heart almost twice the size of average racehorses, a factor that contributed to its incredible power and stamina
kOe14 TIL J.K. Simmons was (and still is) the voice of the yellow M&M, and Billy West is the voice of the red M&M
5YpbD TIL that use of the word "road" for a fixed land route started at the end of the 16th century, with Shakespeare the first known user. Because of that, there are no roads in the "City of London" (London's medieval core): all the ways there had been named before the word came into the English language