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TIL Hunter S Thompson used cocaine up to 11 times a day and had it with his sausage and eggs for breakfast

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x6yO7 [TIL] Ring Around the Rosie is about the great plague. The roses are a euphemism for deadly rashes, the posies a supposed preventative measure; the a-tishoos pertain to sneezing symptoms, and the implication of everyone falling down is death
GY1pg TIL that Central Park, if sold, would be evaluated at close to $530,000,000,000 while the same amount of land in Detroit would sell for around $4.5 million.
79Np TIL There is a lake in Tanzania that turns animals into stone.
0wOjM TIL of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to collapse the British economy by airdropping fake bank notes over England. The program produced up to 300 million Pounds, including £100,000 notes.
R0o6 TIL: If you write your alphabet letters in a single stroke (without lifting your pen), you’re infringing on Xerox’s patented unistroke alphabet. They have won lawsuits over it in the past.