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TIL about "Terminal Lucidity." The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders

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DxVV TIL Joan Alexander, the original radio voice of Lois Lane, was fired, then showed up in disguise at the audition for her replacement. She got the part.
KL9G TIL Marijuana was LEGAL in India until 1985, when under American governmental pressure, it had to declare possession of marijuana illegal despite it being consumed for years and being a part of India’s culture.
vbDj TIL Gary Webb, an Investigative Reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a series of articles about CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking into the US. On December 10, 2004, Gary Webb was found dead in his apartment from two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was later ruled as a suicide.
kgBd TIL in 1984, a 1-year-old received a heart transplant from a baboon but ended up dying 21 days later due to rejection. When questioned with why a baboon and not a primate more closely related to humans, the surgeon said he didn’t believe in evolution.
oB917 TIL the peak of Mount Everest is a "fecal time bomb" due to over six decades worth of human waste being left on the mountain.