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TIL Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

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VkdD TIL the original founders/owners of Macy’s died on the Titanic and were the old couple in the movie who went to sleep as the ship went down.
m11vy TIL Achoo Syndrome is characterized by uncontrollable sneezing after sudden exposure to bright light such as the sun.
rRwZ0 TIL that when Norway was occupied by the Germans in WW2, the Nazis made the Lebensborn program where Norwegian girls were forced into mating with Nazi officers and having their children. One of the Lebensborn women grew up to be Frida Lyngstad, who was a member of the Swedish band ABBA.
W7pmL TIL about Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people from being sent to Nazi death camps by injecting them with a solution that mimics a typhus infection.
ZpKGG TIL of CONOP 8888, also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance: a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP document that describes a plan for the United States and its military defending against zombies