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TIL Homer Simpson's idea to fill a mine with other cities' garbage dissuaded a small Canadian town with the exact same idea.

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VQRp TIL Yuichi Nishimura the controversal ref from Croatia vs. Brazil once red carded the wrong Chinese player due to mistaken identity
XEGYX TIL of a parasitic fungus called cordyceps that infects ants. Once a spore finds a host it grows a network of roots inside, delivering chemicals that will eventually give the fungus full control of the ant, using the body to reach a suitable place to grow. It anchors down with its jaws, permanently.
gMn9L TIL in 1991 Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongfully convicted of being a drug kingpin in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, he studied law to pursue his own appeal and extracted a confession of police misconduct from the detective responsible for his conviction, exonerating Wright.
oBGWW TIL the US dollar has inflated almost 100% since 1990
Zpm7v TIL that DNA is not instructions for cells to build the organism, just a list of proteins that cells can make. Scientists still aren’t sure how cells cooperate to build tissues & bodies