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

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GAJ8g TIL about Yoko Ono's film "Self-Portrait" (1969). It consists of a 42-minute shot of her husband John Lennon's semi-erect penis. At the end, a drop of semen comes out. The film was never reshown after its initial screening.
YpZVW TIL Star Wars was one of the first films to do away with opening credits. George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the Directors Guild of America for not crediting himself... so he resigned.
oB5EA TIL : that you cannot copy files above 4gb to a USB drive which is using the default FAT32 format. One needs to format it to a format called exFAT to be able to do so.
9YA0B TIL There is a theme park in Lithuania which recreates life as a USSR citizen. Visitors have their belongings confiscated, have to wear mouldy overcoats, experience interrogation, and must learn the Soviet anthem.
WrEd TIL more Mexican immigrants (1,000,000 people) have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated to the U.S. (870,000 people) since the end of the Great Recession