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TIL there is a type of mushroom called the Candy Cap which, when dried, tastes strongly of maple syrup.

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wL99W TIL that the last notable author to make the Catholic Church's "banned books" list was Simone de Beauvoir. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was discontinued no sooner than 1966.
QgoL TIL that Moammar Gadhafi had an odd obsession with Condoleeza Rice, once gaving her a videotape of her meetings with various leaders, set to specially composed music entitled “Black Flower in the White House”. She said later that “It was weird, but at least it wasn’t raunchy”.
WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.
dJdr TIL in 1954, the US tested their first dry fuel nuclear bomb, “Castle Bravo”. The explosion was 3x larger than expected. The fallout affected a 100 mile radius, and material traveled as far as India and Australia. It is the most significant radioactive contamination ever caused by the US.
XE60r TIL Australia had chariot races in the 1930s but instead of horses, they used motorcycles