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TIL that in Amsterdam there was a protest against laws to ban psychedelic mushrooms where protesters filled super soakers with mushroom spores and sprayed the parks and lawns surrounding parliament

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vQ8 TIL that the TARDIS materialisation sound is actually a house key scraping along a piano wire
R7kMl TIL that the word "essential" in "essential oil" doesn't mean "important," but rather "the essence of". So oil of clove smells like clove, capturing the "essence" of the plant, and therefore can be called an essential oil.
GYnvQ TIL that the United States has only been at conflict-free for 43 of its 241 years of age, meaning only 17.8% of its existence have been truly peaceful.
gV6A TIL catnip makes a better mosquito repellent than DEET
yoYv TIL during the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, Herodotus recorded the first case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when a Greek named Epizelus became permanently blind without being hit.