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TIL An anonymous donor pays for the college education of every student in Kalamazoo, Michigan

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v1olR TIL the founder of AA accredits LSD with helping with his depression and believed it would assist people in overcoming their alcoholism. He also spoke at length with the author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, about LSD.
NXLvE TIL about pleasure marriage in Indonesia
E1xX7 TIL about the Attack of the Dead Men where 100 poisoned Russian soldiers forced the retreat of 7000 German soldiers in WWI
m1L5E TIL in the 1906 book 'John Dough and the Cherub' the titular Cherub was a child of indeterminate gender; the editors created a contest to guess the gender and second place argued girl as "if it had been a boy he would have eaten the ginger-bread man at once whether it agreed with him or not"
GYMjj TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atom bomb" and the head of the Manhattan Project, once tried to poison his advisor for making him do experimental work instead of theoretical physics.