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TIL: There is and artist in Washington DC who painted self portraits after taking every type of drug.

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GYvMG TIL after the Boston Tea Party, many Americans switched to drinking coffee during the Revolutionary War because drinking tea had become unpatriotic.
N7wr8 TIL Toto -- the band who made "Africa" and "Rosanna", was the band that played the music for Michael Jackson's THRILLER (!)
9YevM TIL that lower-status individuals use more jargon when communicating. The behavior is described by scientists as "linguistic overcompensation ".
8eNE8 TIL the Association of German National Jews supported Hitler
vPaoD TIL of the "Great Smoke Pall" of 1950, a change in the skies from wildfires in Canada. The wildfires weren't well publicized, so there was speculation that the skies changed due to reasons such as secret U.S. military experiments, supernatural forces, and alien invasion.