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TIL Clemson fans will use $2 dollar bills when making a road trip in the opponent's territory to show that the Tigers are in town.

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WkEXd TIL Dr Jack Kevorkian, aka "Dr Death", successfully researched transfusing blood from corpses into living patients. He presented his findings to the Pentagon as a means to help save lives in Viet Nam. However, he was denied funds to continue his research and his process was never adopted.
b9wW9 TIL of tulip mania when in 1630's the price of one tulip bulb rose to about 20 years wages. Everybody got rich and then the last ones in went bankrupt.
D1x7P TIL that Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux of said that “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
9YmDM TIL that Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, singlehandedly calculated an orbital technique called "Mars Cycling" which would allow for spacecraft to perpetually travel between Earth and Mars with only a single initial boost. Crew would board and return via a secondary spacecraft, saving fuel.
yenM TIL Hunter S. Thompson appeared outside Jack Nicholson’s home on the night of Nicholson’s birthday. He set off a high-powered spotlight and gunfire and played a tape of animal cries through an amplifier to awaken him. Thompson then left a freshly-cut elk’s heart on Nicholson’s door as a joke.