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TIL about trickle-down economics of psychoactive mushrooms: shamans in Siberia would often partake of Amanita muscaria psychoactive mushrooms and shaman's urine was then drunk by others who wanted to experience the same, albeit milder, psychoactive effects

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P1kBG TIL: The Trapped 13: How We Survived The Thai Cave is a testament to courage and humanity’s power to unite in the face of impossible odds. Their story reminds us that even in the darkest moments, hope and compassion can shine through.
ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.
VMopm TIL that the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States was guilty of bestiality; Thomas Granger of the Plymouth Colony was hanged for sodomizing "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheepe, two calves, and a turkey."
XELmR TIL the Appalachian Mountains were once part of a mountain range called the Central Pangean Mountains, which were created when the supercontinent Pangea was formed about 335 million years ago. Other mountains that were once part of that range are now in Africa and Scotland.
yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia