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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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EBMV TIL The Krusty Krab has been destroyed 16 times, Spongebob’s house 17 times, and Patrick and Squidward’s houses 10 times
gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).
oRmkA TIL that the New Caledonia pine (Araucaria columnaris) leans towards the equator wherever it is on Earth, except in New Caledonia, the region where it is endemic : the farther it is from the equator, the more it tilts.
pYol8 TIL that in 12th-century England, two children with green skin mysteriously appeared in the village of Woolpit. They spoke an unknown language and claimed to be from an entirely green world called St Martin's Land. It is thought to be the worlds first sci-fi folk tale.
7GrO TIL that in the 1950s a Texas white man went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and travel for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences, he was forced to move to Mexico for several years.