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TIL In China, killing panda is punishable by death

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GDA1 TIL that radiotrophic fungi exist which can transform gamma radiation into chemical energy. They were found inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
kJwo5 TIL that the first recorded instance of gridiron football occurred at University of Toronto's University College in November 1861.
grMJD TIL 19th century French utopian socialist Pierre Leroux advocated the system of Circulus, which proposed human excrement to be collected as a tax by the state to be reused as fertiliser
AD6yn TIL - During WW1 the UK and Canada had battalions comprised entirely of men between 4'-10" and 5'-3" tall known as the Bantam Battalions.
MgGa TIL- There is a mathematical theory of why cords get tangled.