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TIL the history behind the Game of Thrones logo that GRRM and his company incorporate the detailing on the logo elements and make them a perfect representation of each honorable house and the show.

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8a1VL TIL the underground quarries of Paris, which house the city’s catacombs, were once used as a mushroom farm, as they allowed better cultivation all year round. By 1880, up to 300 mushroom farmers produced more than 1000 tons each year.
R7Gm1 TIL that the Navy has a program for intentionally sinking old vessels to become artificial reefs for marine life. The first and largest of these vessels was the USS Oriskany, an aircraft carrier built at the end of WWII, which was sent to the ocean floor off the coast of Florida in 2006.
R54KQ TIL that 96% of Mali's exports is gold
ngBG TIL that In six hours, the world’s deserts receive more energy from the sun than humans consume in a year
78P0b TIL the song "Lesbian Seagull" from Beavis & Butt-Head Do America was not written for the film as a comedy bit, but already existed as a real song written in 1979 in response to a scientific study of long-term monogamous lesbian behavior observed in seagulls on Santa Barbara Island.