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TIL LSD is non-addictive, is not known to cause brain damage, has extremely low toxicity relative to dose, there have been no documented deaths from an overdose, it is physiologically well tolerated and there is no evidence for long-lasting physiological effects on the brain or other organs.

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4k61o TIL composer Robert Schumann would often plunge his hands into the entrails of a dead animal to cure any illness he was suffering from.
4kbR5 TIL that California Community Colleges is the largest university system in the United States with 1.8 million students. But this is still less than one third of the largest in the world - Indira Gandhi National Open University in India, with 7.1 million.
E61P TIL that two women born on the same day but 157 years apart, died on the same day. They both met with a friend, put on a new dress, went to a dance, and met their killers. They were killed the same way, in the same spot
R77Zj Earlier this year, a NASA-led team conducted a series of carefully choreographed flights over California in order to sniff out how aircraft emissions differ when using petroleum fuels or biofuels. Early results from the Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (ACCESS II) experiment confirm that blended biofuel is the cleaner-burning fuel.
O6EX TIL Although Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate 10 times higher than whites, Research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.