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TIL People are complaining that the 2014 Brazil World Cup logo bears too much of a resemblance to a facepalm

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wLALJ TIL that reindeer regularly seek out psychedelic mushrooms. Tribes would also get high off the red-and-white 'shrooms, and some postulate that that is where the Santa myth came from.
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