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TIL caffeine makes you more open-minded to viewpoints that contradict your own

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Ype9G TIL: Opossums are responsible for keeping us safe from ticks.
44bR TIL:October 5, 1582 doesn’t exist.
rRM11 TIL that the state of Idaho once dropped beavers in the wilderness on parachutes.
GMQ1 TIL magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain. The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting “brain regions that don’t normally talk together.”
Xn9X TIL that Prince used Dave Chappelle’s Prince on his album cover for “Breakfast Can Wait”.