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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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dDj47 TIL some workers in Japan pay agencies to tell their employers that they are resigning
bGAp TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House where he slept in a hammock and shot a bow and arrow at a target. Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of his suicide.
lokMa TIL that both Seth Macfarlane and Mark Wahlberg were due to be on flights involved in the 9/11 attacks but due to errors and last-minute changes they ended up not being on board.
epjBE TIL After Emperor Nero's death in 68 AD, a popular legend emerged that he would return to destroy Rome. He's believed to be the inspiration for both "the beast" and the number "666" in the bible
xVdD0 TIL that in 1968 the original London bridge was purchased by an American entrepreneur who shipped it to Lake Havasu City, Arizona where it now resides as a tourist destination (and functional Bridge)