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TIL: Cary Grant began experimenting with LSD in the late 1950s, using it in psychotherapy sessions. He had an estimated 100 sessions over several years

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9Y8jM TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
1k7d TIL that there are a total of 600 on-screen deaths, in the movie 300.
yLlw TIL in 2002, Sega’s president, Isao Okawa, donated all of his company stock, worth $695.7 million dollars, to save the company from going bankrupt after they pulled the plug on its flagship game console, Dreamcast. He died of heart failure shortly after.
M7GJW TIL in 2016 two would-be robbers wore aluminum foil head-to-toe during an attempted bank robbery in Brazil because they thought doing so would prevent the alarm's detectors from noticing them. However what they failed to notice were the internal security cameras capturing their every move.
b64pa TIL Chocolate has caffeine, dark chocolate has as much as 12mg per ounce, milk chocolate has as much as 9mg in 1.55 ounces, and white chocolate has no caffeine