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TIL that South Africa manufactured large quantities of MDMA and deployed it for crowd control during the apartheid era

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KKyG TIL that Chris Brown, Mike Tyson, and Dog the Bounty Hunter have all been banned from entering the UK.
Bg6KD TIL photographer Carol Highsmith donated thousands of her photos to the Library of Congress for public use. Surprisingly, Getty Images claimed copyright on these photos and even accused her of infringement for using one of her own photos on her site.
OopaL TIL - Watergate was not just a break-in but there were 69 people indicted and 48 people—many of them top Nixon administration officials—convicted.
PnBn TIL Homeless children in the 90’s in Miami developed their own elaborate mythology.
ANPy7 TIL Lucy Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), a British adventurer and archaeologist, discovered a 7-foot tall Greco-Roman statue which she then smashed into pieces and tossed into the Mediterranean because she wanted to prove to the Ottoman government that she had no interest in stealing their antiquities.