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TIL of the mushroom called “Green Pepe” that exists on the Bonin Islands near Japan. “Green Pepe” is named such because it glows bioluminescent green.

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PYOWZ TIL that a practical joker once set 70 old tires on fire inside Mount Edgecumbe, a dormant volcano in Alaska. Local residents thought the volcano was erupting until they saw "APRIL FOOL" spray-painted in 50-foot letters around the rim of the crater. He had been planning the prank for four years.
eKM5 TIL Charles Darwin referred to blushing as “the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
Xey6 TIL during the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors defended the experiments they performed on concentration camp inmates by citing experiments performed by American researchers who had fatally infected prisoners with cholera and malaria.
XEDm8 TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.
7rpdp TIL the outrage that ensued when gold miners cut down the “Mammoth Tree” at California’s (now) Calaveras Big Trees State Park inspired the national park system over 160 years ago.