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TIL yeast is a fungus.

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4dpN TIL the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company once sent out scratch & sniff stickers to educate the public on the smell of a gas leak, only for it to backfire when the smell of the unopened envelopes were mistaken for gas leaks.
nVmb TIL that the first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman
xVD0g TIL that Nicolas Cage insisted on picking up a venomous copperhead snake for a scene instead of one without poison because it would relax him in front of the camera and he wouldn’t have to act.
8aLVa TIL About Washing Machine Charlie, a WW2 Japanese pilot who would fly by American bases at night with unsynchronized engines which would wake up the Americans.
6PnZ TIL that cats bring their owners dead animals because it’s their way of saying you suck at hunting and you need to learn how…