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TIL that before trees were common, the earth was covered in giant mushrooms

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4k8Zw TIL that between June 7–11, 1944, one in every five Canadian soldiers who were killed in action were murdered after surrendering, in a series of executions called the Normandy Massacres
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E18mw TIL Almost every state in the US has had confirmed freshwater jellyfish sightings
OoEOg TIL there's a Machine gun Nest at Hoover Dam.
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