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TIL Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Our Planet Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

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4XW6w TIL When the Japanese surrendered in WW2, they anticipated that widespread violence against Japanese women would occur in Japan. As a precaution the Japanese government set up brothels to curb this.
OwW1 TIL the first scientist to see penguins engage in gay sex and necrophilia was so disturbed he tried to obscure his findings
OG0R TIL that the patterns seen when taking hallucinogenic drugs are actually created by the arrangement of cells and interlinking of nerves in the eye and brain
Aroa TIL that the Coliseum in Rome was turned into a privately owned fortress, complete with towers and garrison (1084)
Xd7k TIL : In 1191 King Richard I used chains made of silver to imprison the ruler of Cyprus because he had promised not to place him in irons.