› added 7 years ago

137

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

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

69EWQ TIL that scavengers are stealing WW2 shipwrecks to sell because the steel in those ships was made before atomic bomb detonations and are free of radiation contamination so it can be used to manufacture sensitive scientific and medical devices.
N7kVe TIL The actor Masayori Oka who played Hiro Nakamuro on The TV show Heroes is the founder of Mobius Digital games, the developer of Outer Wilds
rQDW TIL Privately-owned K9 teams are increasingly being used by parents to sniff out drugs hidden around their homes by their teenage children
0deMp TIL there are IKEA stores in China, even as China is the source of cheap furniture the world over.
kW0B TIL Coca-Cola Deutschland created Fanta as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo, to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time