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TIL UK scientists discovered 3 new species of mushroom after buying dried porcini mushrooms from a local grocery store and testing them.

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Ook61 TIL: Sylvester Stallone kept the two turtles Cuff and Link from the original Rocky — and they're now 45
9Yk0p TIL that in 2006, a Sudanese man was caught committing beastiality with a neighbor’s goat. The goat’s owner insisted that since the criminal had treated the goat as his wife, he should have to marry it. Thus, the man was forced to pay a dowry of $75 USD and “married” the goat.
dbyd TIL the Voyager 1 spacecraft, currently more than 20 billion km from earth, is powered by a radioisotope with a half-life of 87.7 years. It has been slowly shutting down systems since 2007 to conserve energy, and by 2025 will go completely dark as it loses the ability to power a single instrument.
7rEAL TIL: There's a Gorilla in Japan who is famous for being so handsome that women go ape over him. Shibani the Gorilla is so ikemen (a really good looking guy) that he was made the official spokesman for the Higashiyama Zoo.
5Ve4P TIL that Elton John considers Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" to be one of the best songs ever written.