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TIL long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by giant mushrooms

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XEj0R TIL feedback loops in Systems Theory. An example of feeback loops are birth rates( a reinforcing loop) and death rate( a balancing loop) all of which act on a giving population. Reinforcing loops enhance what is already existent( like a good investment) and balancing loops level things out.
1aPP7 TIL that a cyber attack at the London 2012 Olympic games was thwarted as the child hacker was called away for tea by his mother.
b9Pp TIL that in The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, there is an ATM that dispenses gold bars
ADK0n TIL when threatened, a Tomato Frog puffs up its body, the frog's skin secretes a thick substance that numbs up the predator's eyes and mouth, causing the predator to release the frog to free up its eyes.
16AEX TIL of an Italian named Falco who with some friends built a series of gigantic "temples" complete with artwork, glass and mosaics, 30m under his house and the surrounding Turin neighborhood. This took place over 20 years, and no-one knew about it. Until it was nearly done.