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TIL LSD (Acid) was legal for decades, was given to undergraduate psychiatry students as part of their education, and it has the highest success rate in recorded history for treating alcoholism.

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j6Bwj TIL Pink Floyd derived its name from the first names of two Blues players, and at the last minute
OGkDR TIL that All Quiet on the Western Front had a sequel. Although the first book's protagonist dies at the end, the Road Back focuses on the return of his demoralized comrades to a ruined German society.
mxWep TIL that in the non-canonical Acts of Thomas that Jesus Christ sells his twin brother Judas Thomas into slavery in order to trick him into going to India.
0wvDp TIL: At the subatomic level, space is never truly empty. It is filled with a writhing, active population of "Virtual Particles" that pop in and out of existence. Physicists call this “quantum foam”. Physicists theorize fluctuations from this field of energy may have given rise to the Universe.
0wrvA TIL redheads have a 25% higher pain threshold, can make their own supply of vitamin D and feel temperature changes better than the rest of us due to their 'redhead gene' MC1R.