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TIL the human body produces trace amounts of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) which has been called “The most powerful hallucinogen known to man and science.”

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L1vP TIL the City of Manchester in the UK has a “Gay Village”, which consists of a fully-gay supermarket, and the bars and clubs attract over 20,000 visitors per weekend.
awNMM TIL the French philosopher Michel Foucault was paid for his famous debate with Noam Chomsky in hashish
j6JEa TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.
pxW4 TIL that before the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, the painting was so unknown that the Washington Post used the wrong image of the painting in their article reporting the theft
Yb07 TIL that it is possible to sail in a straight line from Pakistan to the east coast of Russia without ever hitting a land mass or changing directions, nearly 20,000 miles.