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TIL Scientists found species of fungi in Chernobyl that feed on the radiation for energy.

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nWJgY TIL that Xerox scanners sometimes used to randomly substitute digits in scanned documents, e.g. turning 6s into 8s. The issue was discovered and fixed in 2013 but old scanners might still be affected.
8epgG TIL that Drew Carey refuses to ever submit himself for an Emmy Award nomination
90AD TIL that in 2007, a Texas man saw his neighbor’s empty house being burglarized. He told 911, “I’m not gonna let them get away with it.” After they left the house he said, “I’m gonna kill him”, and then went outside and shot both men in the back, killing them. The grand jury found it was justified.
P1Jee TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s
OGXdY TIL during/after the Korean War, South Korea state-sponsored prostitution for US troops, framing it as women's 'patriotic duty.' Camp towns from the DMZ to Seoul were called 'GI Heaven. The sex workers endured severe abuses to facilitate "sexual hygiene" such as forced medication and imprisonment.