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TIL that the Superbowls are havens for sex trafficking.
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TIL that philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once took mescaline and imagined himself attacked by sea creatures. For years afterward, he suffered from intrusive thoughts about crabs and persistently thought crabs were following him around.
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TIL that hippies love for granola began with a need to feed half a million people easily at Woodstock.
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TIL that in the early 2000’s people complained that their Mac laptops mysteriously started giving off the smell of really bad body odor. Turns out the culprit was an adhesive used on the keyboards that started to break down after a few years, outgassing a foul smell in the process.
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TIL there is no national minimum drinking age in the United States. Instead, a law called National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 punishes states that allow anyone under 21 to purchase alcohol by cutting their federal highway funds by 10%. The last state to comply was Louisiana in 1987.
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TIL Flowers for Algernon was rejected for publication numerous times because author Daniel Keyes refused to change the ending to make it happier