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TIL Joseph Smith once ran for president, and would've been the first assassinated unelected candidate if his run was taken seriously

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QJWB9 TIL that there are currently 15 different types of power outlets in use around the world.
ADY14 TIL a party boat carrying sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passangers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
GJeG TIL that many countries have built wildlife crossings; structures that allow animals to cross man made barriers. In the US they have been used to protect Mountain Goats in Montana, Spotted Salamanders in Massachusetts, Bighorn Sheep in Colorado, Desert Tortoises, and endangered Florida Panthers
XEa5r TIL there are 14,033 animals on the “least concern” list of endangerment and some of those animals numbers, like the Galah (species of parrot) are steadily increasing.
m15XY TIL there is a species of mushroom that infects and zombifies carpenter ants. The mushroom slowly takes control of the ant’s motor functions and leads them away from the colony to die in a place ideal for growing. Then the mushroom grows out of the ant’s head.