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TIL scientists have been studying Ketamine, a recreational, dissociative drug, as a cure for depression. It is often discredited by the public due to being known as a horse tranquilizer.

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mx0Nx TIL that in addition to Neanderthals, another ancient lineage - the Denisovans - also interbred with early human populations. Some people from Oceania and East Asia have Denisovan DNA; and a hybrid skeleton was recently discovered and analyzed.
WkDPN TIL about the Human Towers of Barcelona/Catalon, often reaching a height of 9-10 people high
mxEKE TIL expensive weddings usually end in divorce.
jNXOM TIL of a woman who gave her neighbor a ‘box of sex toys’ to hold on to. 6 months later the neighbor noticed a stench coming from her closet where the box was stored. She finally opened it and found a decomposing severed head inside. It was the original woman’s husband.
j64NN TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.