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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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8ebKK TIL that when Dan Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in 1982, he got mocked and shamed. Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling spoke of the discovery, saying "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." In 2011 Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery.
y9Je TIL: “Jamias vu” is a phenomenon completely opposite to “Deja vu”. Under this a person thinks he/she is seeing a situation for the first time despite rationally knowing that he/she has been in this situation before.
JYK8 TIL that “Mongolian BBQ” was unknown in Mongolia until a US-based restaurant chain opened a franchise there in 2005 bringing the concept that was actually invented in Taiwan in the 70s and inspired by Japanese Teppanyaki cuisine finally to the country it lent its name from
dKaj TIL the Canadian government has banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering the country
Eaw0 TIL that the K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, has no local name. It is so remote and inaccessible that very few local people knew of its existence, and thus why it retains its original surveying moniker given to it by British surveyors.