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TIL someone developed a method to secretly communicate with people on LSD

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X0neE TIL in the 1960s, gym students at La Sierra High School in CA, faced grueling physical challenges and were ranked by their shorts color: white for rookies, gold for elites, and Navy Blue for the rarest. Navy Blue required 34 pull-ups and carrying someone 5 miles. Only 19 students ever earned it.
VPdp TIL of Han van Meegeren, a painter who avoided execution in 1945 for selling Dutch cultural property to the Nazis by proving he’d forged it all after setting up his studio in court. He received just one year for fraud and was later hailed as a hero for duping Hermann Göring, amongst others.
69A7w TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings
ZkOv TIL Native American warrior Crazy Horse grew to hate white people after witnessing his tribe being attacked by US troops. They had come because his tribe had slaughtered a cow that accidentally wandered into their village
yZmp TIL there is a genetic mutation that causes your bones to become very dense. One person that suffered from this had a bone density that was eight times higher than the average male; he used to sink like a stone when he tried to swim and once came out of a car accident without a single fracture.