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TIL The largest living organism on Earth is not a whale or a tree but a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the "humongous fungus," which spans over 2,385 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.

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x0pD TIL That there is a 30-foot tree trunk known as the “Old Man of the Lake” that has been floating vertically in Oregon’s Crater Lake for nearly 120 years. In 1938 they tracked the tree trunk’s movement and discovered that it had traveled a total distance of over 60 miles in just under 3 months.
e4Qk TIL The Blues Brothers movie was not available in predominately white neighborhoods, for Mann Theaters. They didn’t think the movie would be successful with white audiences.
wLX9P A new study published February 15 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society finds that the Andromeda galaxy is actually around the same size as our own galaxy. Scientists previously thought Andromeda was about two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that it would one day swallow us up in a galactic smashup billions of years away. But researchers using a technique to measure “the speed required to escape a galaxy” have figured out why Andromeda is smaller than research has suggested, according to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). This could seriously change the outcome of that eventual merger.
9wblm TIL: There is a study in the UK at the University of Nottingham that tested the pop culture theory the "hot-crazy matrix" made popular by HIMYM with bipolar women. Men were overwhelmingly willing to date BPD women in the short term as long as they were attractive, while women won't for men.
pYvp TIL the Dead Kennedy’s started to attract an unwanted group neo-nazi punk fans in the late 70s. To combat the wave of unwanted fans, they released the single “Nazi Punks F*ck Off”.