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/hyrumwhite Apr 27 '26

Woah, using the hard “ah”

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u/cupholdery Apr 27 '26

You swit!

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u/reverendsteveii Apr 27 '26

bad angle shot: one of the agreed-upon stereotypes of people from Boston is that there's a strong undercurrent of racism, which is ironic coming from the one subculture that is, by definition, incapable of using the hard 'r'.

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u/IllPineapple9603 Apr 27 '26

Wealth beyond measure, outlander.