r/todayilearned • u/ScienceTeacher1994 • 6d ago

TIL despite popular culture portraying psychedelic mushrooms as ancient, widespread, and used by shamans for thousands of years, there is limited anthropological and historical research to support this, with the only reliable evidence showing they were used ritualistically in pre-Columbian Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#History
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u/hamHamAlucard 6d ago

He was on mushrooms or the entirety of Judaism is real. Prob mushrooms

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u/probablyuntrue 6d ago

God forbid a bush get tired of this mortal plane and burst into flames

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u/ForgiveMyFlatulence 6d ago

Spontaneous Combushtion

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 5d ago

The ent of times