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TIL that the Lamborghini Murciélago supercar was named after a fighting bull that survived 24 sword strokes in a bullfight in 1879. Such was the bull’s courage that the matador let it live.

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KOgmJ TIL that the largest single organism on the planet is not a blue whale - it is a "Humongous Fungus" called Armillaria ostoyae, located in Oregon, U.S. It is estimated it weighs 440 tons (the size of three blue whales) and is 2400 years old.
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exaL TIL the British are drunk in 76% of their Facebook photos.
oxeL TIL that in ancient Rome during funerals, a person called an Archimime would walk behind the deceased and imitate the person like they were still alive.
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