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TIL that we humans are closer related to fungi than to plants

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gMRZ7 TIL most of Ringo Starr's art pieces are titled just because he had to give the files containing them names.
yagV TIL Qatar is the only country that begins with a Q and Iraq is the only country that ends with one
9Y4y6 TIL Brent Spiner recorded an album of 1940s hits with Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn and LeVar Burton as backup vocalists
0wPjA TIL of Wolfgang Pauli, around whom scientific equipment was constantly breaking. Once, he was absent and a piece of machinery still broke, seemingly disproving the jinx - until his colleagues discovered Pauli had been passing right by the laboratory on a train the exact moment the machine broke down
bJK7 TIL that Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399) was a female king. Polish law had no provision for a female ruler (queen regnant), but did not specify that kings had to be male.