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TIL Ellen Burstyn (mom in the original Exorcist) was stalked by her schizophrenic ex-husband who assaulted her in the 70s, but couldn’t legally file charges against him because that was not a crime then

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GG71 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)
yV59X TIL that an ESA Astronaut nearly drowned in his spacesuit during a 2013 spacewalk.
ADJW7 TIL that the entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.
eWWk TIL that a two toed sloth in 2001 was discovered hanging under a field research team’s latrine, scooping up the mixture of feces, urine and toilet paper and eating it.
6E8o7 TIL in 1961 Ronald Reagan released a spoken-word album warning against socialized medicine.