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

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RPpQ TIL Thomas Jefferson is credited by the OED as the first person in history to use the word “Shag”, to mean “to have sex with”
lorlB TIL about Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest (DHCA), wherein patients are deliberately put into hypothermia as low as 20C (68F) thereby stopping all heart and brain function in order to increase survival time on reduced oxygen, while making delicate surgeries easier.
rDxx TIL that in China, real-estate developers hire white people to boost businesses because they make “the place feel classier.”
p0Lb TIL actor and rapper Ludacris still drives a ‘93 Acura Legend
X0D48 TIL that a non-custodial parent kidnapped his two sons from Italy and choose to escape Europe on the Titanic. When the ship sank, the young boys were saved but the father drowned. The now famous boys appeared in Newspapers in Italy and their mothers saw them and reunited.