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TIL that radiotrophic fungi exist which can transform gamma radiation into chemical energy. They were found inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

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9YD0p TIL NFL player Pat Tillman joined the army after 9/11 but became opposed to the war while oversees. He was then killed by a soldier standing less than 10 yards from him during friendly fire. His unit then burned his journal and the army lied to his family, claiming he'd been killed by the enemy.
Zp054 TIL that On September 10, 2001, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a press conference that $2.3 trillion from Pentagon had gone missing, but the 9/11 attacks took attention away from this news, so it was forgotten.
16eyO TIL that the Cizeta-Moroder V16T supercar was so named due to one of the car's creators, legendary music producer and composer Giorgio Moroder. The name was later shortened to Cizeta after Moroder's departure following a dispute with the company's founder, former Lamborghini engineer Claudio Zampoli
PYrxw TIL when Julie Andrews received her damehood in 2000, Queen Elizabeth said to her that she’d ‘been waiting for this for a very long time.’ One of Julie Andrews’ earliest performances was at age 13, singing “God Save the King” before a then Princess Elizabeth.
5JmR TIL Randy Rhoads is considered one of the best metal guitar players but he didn’t like metal music. He didn’t listen to it and he didn’t own those kinds of records. At the peak of his success he wanted to leave metal to earn a degree in classical guitar.