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TIL That Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

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6Mkm TIL that the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Sidney Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, “Yeah, yeah.”
OPZa TIL The most commonly used sled dogs are selectively bred mutts, not the beautiful black and white Huskies we all know and love.
X00mk TIL NY State prosecuted a fake architect named "Newman," and called the investigation "Operation Vandelay Industries," based on two Seinfeld characters, including fake architect George Costanza, aka "Art Vandelay."
rRNOx TIL that chocolate bars used to cost 5c and were used as meal replacements. As a result, in the US a popular choice was aptly named "Nickel Lunch".
MeNLA TIL Alice Cooper once threw a live chicken at the audience, thinking it would fly away, and the audience tore it to pieces. After newspapers claimed he had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage, Frank Zappa said "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it.".