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TIL Salvia Divinorum, a plant in the Mint family, produces the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen by mass. The most intense peak is reached in roughly a minute & lasts for 1–5 minutes. Users usually return to a sense of the everyday & familiar, then to baseline, after about 15-20 minutes.

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Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_zr2ons on December 20, 2022 at 11:05 PM in todayilearned

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TIL on the morning of July 26, 1184, Henry VI held court at the Petersberg Citadel. The weight of the assembled nobles caused the second story floor of the building to collapse. Most of the nobles fell into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid shit.

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Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_zkduxg on December 12, 2022 at 10:30 PM in todayilearned

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TIL researchers at the University of Georgia have built a device named the "Wasp Hound", which contains a parasitic wasp species trained to recognize various odors like explosives or drugs. The wasps are tracked by a computer which triggers an alarm when enough wasps seemingly focus in on a scent.

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Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_1001i3q on December 31, 2022 at 7:21 PM in todayilearned

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TIL that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong apparently filled out and signed customs forms when returning from the moon in 1969.

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Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_zt63zo on December 23, 2022 at 4:15 AM in todayilearned

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TIL John Steinbeck IV wrote an article in January 1968 about marijuana usage among the troops. This set off a media firestorm, & the Army began clamping down on marijuana usage, arresting ~1000 G.I.s a week for possession. Many G.I.s switched to heroin, which was odorless and thus harder to detect.

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Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_zzhptn on December 31, 2022 at 1:31 AM in todayilearned

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TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed.

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Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_yfezcn on October 28, 2022 at 5:20 AM in todayilearned

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It ain't rigged.

Submitted by The_Critical_Cynic t3_yhiq8e on October 30, 2022 at 4:34 PM in Jokes

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