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TIL fungi have been observed to do almost everything in managing an environment, from digesting minerals out of rock formations to consuming fossil fuel spills to de-radiating an environment(like around Chernobyl) (btw 30:57- 47:45)

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P1Ew TIL Wikipedia has a page for every experiment seen in the Lilo and Stich canon, from 0 to 626
oB6M7 TIL of buttock mail, a tax historically levied in Scotland as a punishment for sex outside of marriage
W7x0B TIL the first Superbowl MVP to say "I'm going to Disney World" was Phil Simms in 1987
6Ek6Z TIL that for his performance at a comedy club, Andy Kaufman once brought a sleeping bag onto the stage, curled into it, and spent his entire act napping before the audience.
woxB1 TIL artist Dean Cornwell submitted three entries for a competition to paint the rotunda of the Los Angeles Public Library, one under his real name and two under fake names. Cornwell won the competition with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.