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TIL that possession of wild psilocybin mushrooms is not illegal in Florida

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w8BM TIL the vision of canals of Mars were a result of a malfunction of Percival Lowell’s telescope that allowed him to see the reflection of his own blood vessels.
vP447 TIL that so many people were killed in the Battle of Changping which lasted from 262-260 BC that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s
DQNkv TIL that Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) released a documentary in 2008, “Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?”, in which he correctly deduced that bin Laden was hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan. After bin Laden’s death, it was revealed that he had a copy of the documentary in his video collection.
P18rJ TIL milk jugs have those circle indentations for structural support, lower production costs and to allow changes in volume.
D1EEJ TIL tempura was introduced to the Japanese by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century observing abstinence rules for Catholics surrounding the quarterly ember days (Quattuor Tempora). Earlier Japanese deep-fried food was either simply fried without breading or batter, or fried with rice flour.