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MeZ7B TIL that a plane containing 6,000 lbs of high grade marijuana crashed in Yosemite’s Lower Merced Pass Lake in 1977, which became nicknamed ‘Dope Lake’ by rock climbers. The climbers broke through the ice to excavate bales upon bales of weed that were overlooked by the feds involved in cleanup.
b969N TIL "Black" Agnes of Dunbar defended her husband's castle against 20,000 English soldiers during a 5 month siege that cost nearly 6,000 pounds
6A77 TIL that Battleship originated during WWI, played in a pad-and-pencil format.
xMJw TIL that in the ‘60s, the C.I.A. paid Vietnamese spies with merchandise from mail-order Sears catalogs, since they had little use for paper money
v1bbj Today I learned that during the The Bubonic Plague,Jews were accused of poisoning water wells and as a result were burned alive at the stake by Christians.