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TIL yeast is a fungus.

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690m7 TIL While light takes 8 minutes to reach earth from the sun, an object traveling the speed of light would orbit earth 7.5 times in 1 second.
oRMAL TIL in 2021, scientists discovered Eumillipes persephone, a millipede with as many as 1,306 legs, found deep underground in the Australian outback, which makes this species the animal with the most legs on Earth and the first millipede discovered to have 1,000 legs or more.
BrkDD TIL of Unsinkable Sam, a ship’s cat who survived 3 ships’ sinkings during WW2, once on a German battleship before being adopted by British sailors and sinking twice more. The third time he was found clinging to driftwood, ‘angry but quite unharmed.’
ZpeP4 TIL “Blame it on the Boogie” famously sung by Michael Jackson as part of the Jacksons in 1978 was originally written by Mick Jackson, a white soul singer in 1977. Also both versions were released in September 1978 which meant two different Jacksons charted with the same song at the same time.
QoYe TIL the Seinfield episode, “The Contest” where the four main characters see who can go the longest without masturbating, never once contained the word “masturbation” and won an Emmy for achievement in writing.