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TIL THC induces cognitive and affective abnormalities in the brain, but co-administration of CBD with THC prevents these abnormalities, counteracting "many of the anxiety and emotional memory processing disturbances caused by THC."

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XojQ TIL Cilantro (Coriander) is supposed to taste pleasantly fresh and like citrus. Scientists are still not sure why it tastes unpleasant and soapy for some people (including me).
GY5ng TIL that Queen still performed in apartheid South Africa when the majority of bands refused to, and was by far the largest band to do so. They were subsequently placed on the United Nations' artist blacklist.
W7obo TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
mxX9E TIL Compared with hunter-gatherers, industrialized peoples’ intestines have fewer kinds of microbes—and are missing at least one major group of ancient bacteria. Yet even with all of these extra microbes, hunter-gatherers have fewer gut ailments, such as Crohn’s disease, colitis, and colon cancer.
LVx9 TIL: During the First Wave of Feminism a Spanish mother raised her child to be the Woman of the Future she spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished Law School at 17 and then her mother shot her to death.