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TIL that according to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.

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nemE9 TIL In the 1960's McDonald's was prepared to abandon its logo of the golden arches of the letter M, but psychologist Louis Cheskin successfully urged the company to maintain this branding because of their "Freudian symbolism of a pair of nourishing breasts."
VMQLk TIL in ancient Sparta, men encouraged their wives to bear children from other men in order to help increase the population of the city.
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