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TIL 90% of US LSD was once produced at Bexley, a dorm on MIT campus. When the FBI raided the building, they were greeted with a plate of milk and cookies, but no lab.

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JYxrQ TIL that until 1956 after the end of British rule, Egypt hadn’t been both fully independent and ruled by native Egyptians for 2500 years
p8NN4 TIL cigarettes and tobacco use kill more Americans each year than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.
negrG TIL Australia constructed a 2,023 miles (3,256 km) series of 3 fences between 1901 and 1907 designed to keep rabbits out of Western Australia.
XBD6 TIL Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen starred in an Oscar winning film, escaped a Nazi Death Camp, won $64,000 on a game show and escaped blizzard shelter with a chisel made from frozen excrement
yQXb8 TIL in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the famous detuned “flashbulb” sound, which is actually a tuning fork scraping a piano string.