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TIL Quentin Tarantino is a huge Luke Cage fan, and considered making a film about him but ended up making Pulp Fiction instead

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JOE8 TIL that Thomas Edison was an advocate for monetary reform in the United States. He was ardently opposed to the gold standard, and debt based money. Famously, he was quoted in the New York Times stating “Gold is a relic of Julius Caesar, and interest is an invention of Satan.”
R9xQ TIL in 2005 HIGH TIMES suggests moving 4:20 to 5:20: “When you’re working a 9-to-5 job, sometimes it’s worth waiting the extra hour.”
wY71 TIL the “Monte Carlo fallacy” was named after an actual game of roulette played in Monte Carlo where the ball landed on black 26 times in a row. Millions of francs were lost by gamblers who believed red was “due” to come up.
d8O17 TIL about Project Rulison. The US detonated a 40 kiloton nuclear weapon underground in rural Colorado. The goal was to liberate natural gas as part of Operation Plowshare. Unfortunately the gas was too radioactive to use in homes.
x61DD TIL that there is a 2 euro coin dedicated to Asterix