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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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W76K8 TIL that elements of the ancient Mesopotamian religion (first formed in the 6th millennium BC) may have survived until the early 20th century. The Shamsīyah, a sect of sun-worshippers, persisted in southeastern Turkey (sometimes outwardly adopting Christian customs) until the early 1900s.
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