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TIL that in the United Kingdom 'Magic Mushrooms' were available to purchase in shops up until 2005

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MDY8 TIL Pocahontas died when she was only 21/22 and was never romantically involved with John Smith as Hollywood would have you believe
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E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it
8e6jV TIL that a 12 year old boy enlisted to fight in WWI after lying about his age and fought in the Battle of the Somme at 13 before his mother revealed his true age and brought him home.