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

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6EevX TIL that dolphins deliberately use toxic pufferfish to get high
kO0E TIL that Anaïs Nin, a French-Cuban author, led two completely separate lives in California and New York, spanning several decades. She would commute between states on a weekly basis. Neither of her husbands became aware of this until after her death.
6E6d7 TIL 2012 Aurora shooter "Jame Holmes" never called himself the 'Joker' nor was the Dark knight a reason for the shooting, it was a rumor made by journalist that spread online.
9YeB7 TIL Sarbi, a Special Forces dog from Australia, trained in explosives detection, was MIA for 14 months in Afghanistan after disappearing during an ambush in 2008. She was later rediscovered by an American soldier and flown back to her Australian handlers.
epDnn TIL about Margaret Ives Abbott the first woman to win a medal in the modern Olympics, and also part of the only mother-daughter pair to compete in one Olympics. Margaret won at golf, her mother, Mary, came in seventh. Coinciding with the Paris Exposition, many were unaware they were in the Olympics.