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TIL “Cluster Headaches” are devastating headaches that can drive people to suicide and a common treatment for many are ingesting psychedelic mushrooms.

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edRD TIL that Dr. Seuss published a NSFW book in 1939. He wanted to draw “the sexiest-looking women” he could but its failure caused him to abandon the adult audience and focus on children’s books instead.
R5BYl TIL about Yeti Airlines Flight 691, which tragically crashed with no survivors when one pilot, while landing just a few hundred meters from the runway, mistakenly pulled the lever to feather the propellers instead of the one to increase the flap angle.
MeLK0 TIL that there is a religious group in Japan who believes that Jesus didnt die on the cross. Instead it was his kid brother Isukiri. Jesus instead went to Japan and lived there until he was 106 years old. His grave is found in Shingo and thousands of pilgrims and pagans go there ever year.
5YJY9 TIL that if the UK chain of command is killed in an nuclear war, each nuclear submarines have a hand written letter from the PM telling them what to do. They can: Retaliate, not retaliate, use the commanders judgment or put themselves under the control of an allied country.
WPK9 TIL in the 13th century, Genghis Khan proposed “friendship and peace” with the fellow nomadic Khwarezmian Empire in Persia. The Khwarezmia shah ordered a Mongol trade delegation killed, prompting Khan to invade the empire, kill 1.25 million, and destroy the Khwarezmian Empire.