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XEaEk TIL archaeologists discovered a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle that had traces of at least 5 psychoactive compounds including the ingredients for ayahuasca: cocaine, benzoylecgonine, harmine, bufotenine, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as well as wood tablets to grind substances and a wooden snuffing tube.
wL6k7 TIL a popular sport among Native Americans was basically LaCrosse with teams of "5 to 100" that would last for days. It was used as training, entertainment, and dispute resolution. Being a sore loser is considered to be the spark that ignited an actual war in the 1600's.
neKwP TIL More People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets. According to a UN report from 2015, 2.5 billion of the world's 7 billion people lack access to a toilet, particularly in areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. While another report put the number of mobile phone users at 6 billion.
6ZW8 TIL candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween.
8ak64 TIL Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilising 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like a flute or organ