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TIL a researcher has conjectured that the pineal gland releases the psychedelic compound DMT when near death. High doses of DMT caused subjects to enter into non-corporeal, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who were expecting the volunteers.

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9YNbB TIL 5-year-old William Everetz wanted to spend his allowance on kindness, so he saved his money for 5 months to buy lunch for the entire Winslow Township in NJ. He bought them Subway so they could ‘be healthy’ and the police gave him a shirt and badges, and made him an honorary officer
d8BGE TIL of José Sanjurjo a prominent figure in the Spanish civil war, who died when the biplane he rode which was overburdened with his luggage crashed. Before flight the pilot warned Sanjurjo of the danger to which he replied with, "I need to wear proper clothes as the new caudillo of Spain."
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4abg TIL when Alan Moore was preparing to write ‘The Killing Joke’, he asked DC Comics editor Len Wein if they had any problem with crippling Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Wein replied, 'Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.’ “It was probably one of the areas where they should’ve reined me in, but they didn’t.”