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TIL at the height of the Grateful Dead's touring years, Jerry Garcia was using $1800 (adjusted for inflation) worth of drugs per day.

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rw6o TIL Amazon’s daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.
pLRb TIL If the largest star in the Galaxy was placed at the center of our Solar System, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
JOPV TIL in the 1930s a Major General of the US Marine Corps, and two-time Medal of Honor recipient wrote a book titled “War is a Racket” arguing that the US govt. and military resources were primarily used to further the interests of big Corporations profiteering from wars.
ExVX TIL that all cats with 3 or more colors are females
eggL TIL ‘Yak Shaving’ is the term for getting sidetracked by multiple other tasks before finally being able to complete what you originally started out to do.