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TIL The World’s Biggest Organism is actually a giant fungus and not an Aspen Tree.

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XE5nD TIL whale oil was used in transmission fluids as recently as 1972. Transmission failures soared when its use was banned.
xa0b TIL that half of the uranium used in US power plants comes from recycled Russian nuclear weapons under an agreement that actually runs out this year.
rR7my TIL that prior the 1800’s, the use of the word “Propaganda" was commonly associated with the Vaticans “pontifical administration” to further Catholicism in third world countries.
OmBX TIL that 7 of the top 10 drunkest US cities are located in Wisconsin, and Wisconsin lays host to 12 of the top 20 drunkest cities.
neoP9 TIL When London Underground’s first escalators were installed in 1911 a one-legged man – William ‘Bumper’ Harris-was employed to ride the escalators and demonstrate to a sceptical public the safety of the new machines. Ironically he had lost his leg in an earlier underground accident.