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TIL "magic mushrooms" are legal in Colorado and Oregon

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X0VaP TIL one of the reasons Persia is now called Iran was listed in the official memorandum as “From the racial standpoint Iran (Persia) was the birthplace and cradle of the Aryan race"
oBEER TIL that Silent Hill was based off a real town, Centralia, which still has a toxic coal mine burning underneath them 60 years later.
nNYd TIL David Lunt was shot through the skull and brain by a revolver and not only lived after the shot, but also felt no pain from it. He died 67 days later and his autopsy revealed that the gunshot was what killed him. Coroners still don’t know how Lunt survived for so long and felt no pain.
68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.
wXPE TIL that if you commit suicide in Japan by jumping in front of a train, the company will charge the family a disruption fee.