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TIL Champignons de Paris (aka Button Mushrooms) were cultivated in the catacombs under Paris (where 6 million people were buried), where it was grown on horse manure

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R5WvQ TIL that the colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard is a king penguin named Nils Olav III
GALaG TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another.
Wyyo TIL that in 2007 a soldier was acquitted for the rape of a 15-year-old girl because the soldier was suffering from “sexsomnia” or a rare condition where one can unknowingly engage in sexual acts while still asleep
8ekJ8 TIL the reason why old sports photos often have a blue haze is because the arenas were filled with people smoking cigarettes
9YAGm TIL Chris Pratt stole his Star-Lord jacket from the set of the first Guardians of the Galaxy so he could dress up as the character and visit sick kids in the hospital.