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TIL Baicalin, a flavonoid found in skullcap, regulates the dopamine system to control the core symptoms of ADHD, in addition to treating inflammation, fever, jaundice, and hypertension.

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oBNxR TIL: In the '60s a researcher put 3 men who believed themselves to be Jesus in a support group together, and all three ended up believing the others were wrong and they were still Jesus and the others were robots after much arguing over their divinity
ADr9d TIL the human penis likely once had spines
5DBn TIL that Denmark was one of the few countries that resisted turning over its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust. The Danish king told the PM at the time that if the Germans tried to force Danish Jews to wear a yellow star, then he would wear one too.
Y7pdx TIL there are 96 bags of human waste on the moon
EXxw TIL it’s possible to be declared brain-dead falsely because most physicians look at the brain stem, which controls heart and lung functions, but not the cortex, which coordinates consciousness