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TIL that a study showed most people who ingested “magic mushrooms” showed improvements in personality for more than a year.

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rRMAd TIL of a 1970's gameshow called Bowling for Dollars, which actually was a franchise of locally produced shows all across the nation. The use of each cities local celebrities and citizens gave it a homey feel. The show was created by the creator of Romper Room, which had the same franchise format.
R7gkl TIL: Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, and many other Hanna-Barbera characters had collars in order to make them easier (and cheaper) to animate.
69oJW TIL UPS Stores are not directly owned by UPS which results in different liability coverage for packages
PYwWL TIL Russian 500-ruble bill features Argentinian Libertad boat. The graphic designer of the bill admitted he simply used the first photograph of a large frigate he had encountered on the internet
4XgN5 TIL during droughts, California prohibits companies from bottling too much water. Nestlé went around this by buying a massive water plant inside an Indian reservation (officially considered a sovereign nation) that doesn't have to comply with state water regulations.