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TIL fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.

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KkXw TIL Anchorage, Alaska was so snow starved this year they actually had to import 7 train cars full of snow for the starting section of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
N7A9M TIL Write-only memory is a joke among computer and software engineers. Initially there was no use for a memory circuit from which data could not be retrieved. The first use of the term is generally attributed to Signetics in 1972 and is featured in the Apple IIe Reference Manual.
E9rx TIL there is a community in southern Ohio who are thought of as black, regardless of the color of their skin. They’re actively discriminated against by the neighboring town because of this.
nW0vY TIL That a Contronym is a word that can have two opposite valid meanings, for example Cleave, to split something and also hold on to something, or another example is Bolt, to affix something and also to get away. There are many others.
N7RYQ TIL that when he was 8, George Carlin's aunt worked for the publisher of the Sunday newspaper funnies. Through his aunt, Carlin gained early access to the comics and would impress his classmates by predicting each weeks stories.