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TIL that Owsley Stanley singlehandedly ignited the psychedelic scene in the sixties by producing over 1 million doses of LSD from a makeshift bathroom laboratory in Berkeley.

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R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.
E09W TIL in Japan it is believed women have too warm of hands to be sushi chefs.
dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.
gMKrX TIL about a mega-colony of Argentine Ants spanning 6 continents and 1000s of miles territory including Japan, California and the Mediterranean coast. It is the largest inter-related colony ever discovered and rivals humans in its global scale
JZkB TIL that Steve McQueen staged a car crash and faked a whiplash injury so that he could film The Magnificent Seven while “recuperating”