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TIL that there is a mushroom in Oregon that is roughly 2,400 years old, and has a root system that covers over three square miles of land.

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MeGea TIL of Erik Weihenmayer, the only Blind person to have climbed the Seven Summits of every continent, and the first/one of the only Blind persons to climb Mt. Everest.
PdGw TIL that Erik Estrada never held a motorcycle license while starring as a motorcycle patrol officer on “CHiPs”. He only later received one (after three attempts) when preparing for a reality show.
R7dR9 TIL that the cocoa industry relies heavily upon child slavery, and that you can choose to buy chocolate from companies that pay their adult workers fair wages
77pL TIL there is a 13 month calendar & that the Kodak company used it internally for 70 years.
8j68 TIL of Carlos DeLuna, who was wrongly convicted of murder and executed for killing a gas station attendant. The police made no effort to investigate another man named Carlos who looked nearly identical to DeLuna. Evidence of his innocence would have taken less than a day of investigation to uncover