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TIL that the oil-producing cartel OPEC hasn't really had any power to set oil prices since the 1980s. OPEC members regularly cheat on their production quotas and mostly only commit to what they were going to do anyway, in the absence of OPEC.

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Y7xV7 TIL The first mention in Western medical literature of magic mushrooms was from 1799 when a man picked mushrooms off London’s Green Park for breakfast. After stewing them for his children, his son had “fits of immoderate laughter” and daughter got vertigo
d8pZj TIL in 1972, Shirley Chisholm ran for President, becoming the first African American woman to run a campaign for the Democratic Party.
8aMXK TIL about John Edmonstone, an ex-slave born on a plantation in Guiana who taught Charles Darwin taxidermy in Scotland. Darwin used taxidermy to preserve different specimens of finches he found on Galapagos, discovering 12 distinct species and used them as an example in his theory of evolution.
xV1gk TIL: Nepalese Hindus celebrate a festival thanking Dogs for being our friends
xDm0 TIL that in 2005 a Texas man shot himself in the face after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted of the animal.