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

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6EZEl TIL: Lake Chad in Central Africa is the remnant of an ancient inland sea referred to as Mega Chad
M7y5b TIL the map of Juan de la Cosa, created around the year 1500, is the oldest known map to show America and was unknown until its discovery in 1832 by map enthusiast Charles Walckenaer in a Paris bookshop.
JYX08 TIL: Chickens' heads are gyroscopic. Move their bodies but their heads stay steady.
8p5b TIL - Anderson Cooper is related to Cornelius Vanderbilt and a Civil War general, was a Calvin Klein model, interned at the CIA, studied Vietnamese, lived in Africa and caught malaria…
x6pLo TIL that During World War II, the Quaker Oats company , through its subsidiary the Q. O. Ordnance Company, operated the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant as a government-owned, contractor-operated 11,960-acre site that manufactured millions of pieces of various artillery munitions.