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TIL Muggles is an old 1920’s term for marijuana

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m0NR TIL There is a Japanese anime based on The Powerpuff Girls called Powerpuff Girls Z
LkwLQ TIL George Adamski claimed that he met with extraterrestrials and that every planet in our solar system was populated with human-like inhabitants, as was the dark side of the earth’s moon. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands invited him to her palace in 1959 to discuss extraterrestrial doings
kybe TIL that one of the earliest records we have of dreadlocks are from a civilisation in Crete
69Pxl TIL of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon - an individual dressed in black that was believed to be responsible for gas attacks in Mattoon, Illinois during the 1940s. Despite claims and eye witnesses many have written it off as a mass hysteria event or one caused by the inhalation of pollutants/substances.
MeGa0 TIL 'Golden Age' 3-D movies had a built-in intermission point around the 50 minute mark. Carbon arc rods on the projectors used for the light source could not burn for more than an hour. The intermission would last 10 minutes, enough time to re-thread both projectors and install new carbon rods.