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TIL LSD was originally meant to be an analeptic, used in overdoses to stimulate the CNS, but the researcher accidentally absorbed some and got super high, leading to its discovery as a psychedelic

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xVjd0 TIL one airport (SAV) in the US has 2 headstones embedded in the runway from an expansion where the next of kin refused to exhume the bodies of a small family cemetery
nWJDY Today I learned that Gene Wilder died listening to one of his favourite songs, Ella Fitzgerald's version of "Over the Rainbow".
69MgZ TIL about Reasonable Blackman, an African silk merchant in 16th century London that was one of the first people of African Heiritage to own a business in London
9w7bB TIL 18th Century Norwegian swashbuckler Peter Tordenskjold once ran out of ammo during a sea battle so he sent his enemy a letter thanking him for "a fine duel" and asking him to send more ammo so they could carry on. The two crews then toasted each other's health and went their separate ways.
neayb TIL that the stomach is lined with a network of neurons, which is responsible for making us experience the "gut feeling" we get when we are nervous. There are actually over 100 million brain cells in the gut, which is as many as there are in the brain of a cat.