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TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started

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mayP TIL Breast Cancer Cure foundation, Susan G. Komen, have been suing other many small charities for using the word “for the cure” in their names or the color pink.
5Y0en TIL that the first olympic marathon gold medalist told hittler that he hoped he won't start a war. And brought him an olive tree branch instead of nazi waving.
JbVV TIL that 35 nations are coming together in France to create a fusion reactor that will be 10 times hotter than our Sun(150 million °C) and will be able to output 500 megawatts of fusion power. The current record fusion power output is only 16 MW.
b9drj TIL that in ancient Egypt people with Dwarfism were worshipped, because it was believed they had special relationship with certain gods
kOkB1 TIL penicillin was first able to be mass-produced from a moldy cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois