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TIL that eating psychedelic mushrooms causes new brain cells to grow.

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OoNle TIL of Rotha Lintorn-Orman, who decided to become a facist in 1923 to save Britian from communism one day when she was weeding her kitchen garden
P6Rw TIL that Napoleon Dynamite cost only $400,000 to produce, and grossed about 10 times more than the production price.
9wMBB TIL the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC displayed a working "Little Boy" Atom Bomb that lacked only uranium until 1986. Then the Department of Energy took the bomb from the museum to remove its inner components, so it could not be stolen and detonated with fissile material.
KjyR TIL that the smallest living bird is nary larger than a bee and weighs less than a single US penny
epdrn TIL that the rainiest place on Earth is Mawsynram in northeastern India. It receives a whopping 12000 mm of rain per year (for comparison, Cardiff, Wales gets 1150mm).