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TIL that fungi are evolutionarily more closely related to animals than to plants, and this was not recognized until a few decades ago.

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dgQr TIL Soviet Finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan once saved 20 people from a drowning trolleybus at the bottom of a 25 metres (80 ft) offshore at a depth of 10 metres (33 ft). He spent 45 days in a coma after this heroic act. Then he saved people from a burning building.
JavQ TIL Wilmington, North Carolina is the only city in the entire history of the United States to have its elected government violently overthrown in 1898.
jNVjn TIL that in 1808 two Frenchmen held a duel in the skies by both riding their own hot air balloon and shooting at each other's balloon
wR57 TIL of the Fremdschämen, the German word for the horror you feel when noticing someone is oblivious to how embarrassing they are.
WJlL TIL JFK purchased 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before he ordered the Cuban Trade Embargo in 1962.