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TIL that Earth used to be covered with giant mushrooms instead of trees.

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RjD7 TIL that original targets of the September 11 attacks were nuclear power plants, but the targets were later altered by al-Qaeda, as it was feared that such an attack “might get out of hand”
ape9 TIL Aaron Paul, Jesse from “Breaking Bad”, was once a contestant on “The Price is Right”.
neE47 TIL that in 2003, Dutchman Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology after writing a paper on "the first case of homosexual necrophilia [by a mallard]" after watching a duck die after crashing into his window, only for its corpse to be "raped almost continually for 75 mins" by another duck.
6x7Y TIL of Cynthia Ann Parker, a settler who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians when she was 10. She lived with them for 24 years, married a chieftain and had 3 children. She was then ‘rescued’ by Texas Rangers when she was 34 but never adjusted back to her old life. She died heartbroken 10 years later.
W7vP4 TIL about Jens Peter Westergaard, born in 1914 and the first non-emigrant Danish man to reach age 110+.