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TIL that DMT has been found to bind to the sigma-1 receptor, which plays a key role in protecting cells from dying when oxygen is low, making room for the argument that DMT may indeed be released in large quantities during death in a last-gasp attempt to keep our cells alive.

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bd77 TIL a four year old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family trip, 8 months later he was found and reunited with his family. Nearly 100 years later, DNA proved that the child reunited with the Dunbar family was not Bobby but rather a boy named Charles Anderson
mxEWp TIL that, the father of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was a vice president of ENRON, another company that committed fraud.
E14y0 TIL: The Youngest Vietnam War Soldier Was 14 Years Old When He Joined And Was 15 When Killed In Action.
kOmog TIL about the ghostly radio station, commonly known as "the Buzzer", situated in Russia that no one claims to run. It’s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for the last three-and-a-half decades. Anyone can listen to it by tuning a radio to 4625 kHz.
Ol5a TIL people of the Middle Ages widely accepted the Earth was spherical. The notion they thought the world was flat is actually a misconception.