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TIL Psychedelic mushrooms have the possibility make you permanently more open, more curious and more creative as well as easing fears and traumatic memories.

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GaG4 TIL: Japanese gang lords barred from entry to the US were given liver transplants at UCLA. During those years over 400 patients died waiting for livers in the LA area.
QaDL TIL Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
yWAX TIL Thomas Paine was condemned to be guillotined in the French Revolution. He survived because the prison officers marked the wrong side of his cell door by mistake, and didn’t notice when it was closed
4XZZ5 TIL Japan and Poland were allies during World War II
R7RY9 TIL whilst filming the movie Entebbe, about a plane being hijacked, a plane was hijacked and landed at the airport on the day of the filming. They then filmed the real hostages being released and edited it into the movie. The producer called it a "blessing from the sky on a day of bad acting."