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TIL when asked how they discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the plants used in the ayahuasca brew, Many indigenous Amazonian people said they “received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits”.

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vPEE7 TIL that Pornhub has their own record label called Pornhub Records. Under that record label they have released two albums, a valentines day album in 2019 and most recently XXXmas, a Christmas album released in December 2020.
R5xo4 TIL A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted to meet Luke Skywalker (in character). His mental state devolved to the point where he did not realise Luke was fictional. Mark Hamill agreed to dress up in character and meet the boy. He spent hours answering questions.
kO6v1 TIL about vanity sizing, which is the practice of assigning smaller sizes to clothing to flatter customers and encourage sales. For example, a Sears dress with a 32 inch (81 cm) bust was labeled a size 14 in the 1930s, a size 8 in the 1960s, and a size 0 in the 2010s.
eJr5 TIL that in 1915, a man named Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the result!, a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.
N7gZN TIL of Marcel Tyberg, a Viennese composer who, because of his 1/16th Jewish heritage, was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. Before his capture, he entrusted his scores to a close friend. The scores ended up in the US but were untouched for decades. Within the last 10 years, his music was rediscovered.