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TIL John Adams once said that if we learned there was no God or life after death, we should all just take a bunch of opium.

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beVN TIL baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash on New Year’s Eve 1972 while trying to deliver food and relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He had exactly 3,000 hits in his professional career.
0wxJM TIL Helen Keller was a co-founder of the ACLU.
BgRYd TIL Bryan Adams co-wrote two songs for KISS that appear on their "Creatures of the Night" album (1982). Adams shares credit with Canadian songwriter Jim Vallance and Gene Simmons for the songs "War Machine" and "Rock and Roll Hell."
ALMd TIL Raul “Mike” Vargas survived over 90min inside the Station Nightclub fire. While trying to escape he fell and was buried under a 5ft tall pile of bodies. The bodies helped insulate him from the fire and he ended up walking out with only a few burns on his legs
GAojN TIL George H. W. Bush served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations during the Nixon administration