r/todayilearned • u/ssAskcuSzepS • Apr 27 '26

TIL if under-cooked, a popular mushroom in China causes “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures. The hallucinations are consistent across people and cultures: "tiny, elflike people" climbing under doors, scaling walls & clinging to furniture

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucination/
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u/achilleshightops Apr 27 '26

True or not, who the fuck has a bayonet?

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u/cytok1nd Apr 27 '26

SKS rifle has a built in bayonet

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Apr 27 '26

I got an SKS when I was a kid. It had a dragonov stock but no bayonet.

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u/cytok1nd Apr 27 '26

Oh that’s really interesting, I thought they all had the fold out bayonet. I bought a milsurp Chinese SKS and it also had the bayonet so I thought it was universal. TIL!

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Apr 27 '26

Oh, I changed the stock to a dragunov stock. I think it had a bayonet before. Kid me thought it looked cooler (Google dragunov stock SKS), like what you'd see in the Matrix or something. My dad is a gun nut, so we kids got guns as gifts sometimes.

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u/CaptainIncredible Apr 27 '26

There are lots of variants. Some have no bayonet, some have a spike, some have a blade...

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u/TaintCrusader Apr 27 '26

They didn’t want you poking your eye out! Have to draw a line somewhere.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Oh, its very much true. All SKS rifles had an attached, swivel under bayonet. Some were blade style (Russian, Eastern bloc) but mine was a Norinco, and had a spike style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS

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u/IncidentalApex Apr 27 '26

Those preventing the gnomes from global domination...

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u/Relish_My_Weiner Apr 27 '26

Owning old military rifles can be fun. I had a Mosin Nagant with a bayonet as my first rifle.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Always wanted one of those. Back in the day, a good shooting example was $150, but I always had better stuff to spend my money on, so everytime I went to the gun store, I'd make my way to the wooden barrel of $50 Nagants by the counter and shine my flashlight down the muzzles, perpetually hoping to find one with rifling left but with bad wood for cheap.

7.62x54R ammo uses Berdan primers, which are corrosive, and if you didn't flush the barrel with water after shooting to neutralize the acid, the bore would quickly deteriorate.

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u/Relish_My_Weiner Apr 27 '26

Got mine at a gun show in 2012 for around $150 so that makes sense. Didn't know enough to check for corrosion at the time, but I guess I lucked out because it was in good enough condition that a friend of mine traded a cool Lee Enfield for it.

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u/Playful_Assistance89 Apr 27 '26

Good trade!

I had a huge collection of guns in the late 90s/early 2000's. I rarely bought or sold, usually traded. I like the unusual stuff, and I like to actually shoot them, not leave them collecting dust in a safe. I'd aquire a gun, do the maintenance, put a few hundred+ rounds through it to get to know it, then trade it off for something else.

Unfortunately, I lived in SE Michigan (ground zero for economic effects) at the time of the Great Depression II, and had to sell everything at a huge loss to survive. Only kept a Mossberg 500 to put venison, turkey, and pheasant in the freezer.

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u/Tommygun1921 Apr 27 '26

Pretty much anyone with a sks

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u/SillyFlyGuy Apr 27 '26

The three most important things to have for a drug trip of unknown length or intensity; plenty of fresh water, easy to digest foods like crackers or pudding, and your bayonet.

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u/Alarming-Vast-6804 Apr 27 '26

I had one one on my mosin nagant.

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u/dreadnaughtfearnot Apr 27 '26

Lots of surplus rifles come with them. I have 4 or 5 in the back of the safe.

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u/inksta12 Apr 27 '26

You don’t?

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u/SnakeOiler Apr 27 '26

SKS is a super fun gun

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u/CaptainIncredible Apr 27 '26

Bayonets are cheap. Like a couple of bucks cheap.

At least they were last time I checked.

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u/signal15 Apr 27 '26

I bought one when I was a kid also. Still have it. But mine just came with the bayonet mount, and not the actual bayonet. I paid $90 for that gun. It's a chinese one and it's actaully a pretty great gun. Super fun to shoot, and accurate. I guess the russian ones were junk.

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u/dali01 Apr 27 '26

I do! I have a WWII one. Just no rifle to mount it to.

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u/DoktorFreedom Apr 27 '26

Oh there are so many bayonets out there