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TIL A UCSF study tested ‘Magic Mushrooms’ on people with Parkinson’s. Participants had meaningful improvements in their mood, cognition, and motor symptoms at both their one-week and one-month follow-up appointments.

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YNoB TIL Young elephants in Uganda ‘appear’ to have engaged in revenge attacks on villages, a study mentioned suggests 'a lack of older bulls to lead by example had created gangs of aggressive young males with a penchant for violence towards each other and other species’
R5pp4 TIL that when swallowing, the tongue elevates to push food back into the pharynx.
eQV4 TIL that in 2012 the remains of King Richard III were found buried beneath a parking lot.
K4p6 TIL One of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War was Lemuel Cook, who died in 1866 at 105. He lived long enough to see the end of the Civil War.
lobV5 TIL of the episode Home, from The X-Files. The Episode was so disturbing it was banned from resyndication after its initial release on FOX.