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TIL taking magic mushrooms, just once ,can permanently change a person’s personality, even as an adult.

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QNL4a TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"
LG0Z TIL when you lose weight, your fat turns into carbon dioxide and water - your fat is literally vaporised and exhaled away from the body.
XEy5j TIL when Jerry Lewis taught film directing at USC in the late ‘60s, George Lucas was one of his students and Steven Spielberg audited some of his classes. Lewis later screened Spielberg's short film Amblin' (1968) and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about."
pMDe TIL a guy showed up to the I-40 bridge collapse and took command of the federal disaster response by impersonating a US Army Captain. He led the response effort for two days before fleeing.
EypX TIL a drug was developed in the 1970s that increases long term memory as much as 152%