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TIL that Picasso made his two mistresses wrestle to see who should be his lover

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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)
jb9p TIL of a man who invented flexible glass. After the Emperor tested his claim he swore that only he knew the technique. Emperor Tiberius then had the inventor beheaded fearing that such a material would undermine the value of gold and silver.
OGGGL TIL of the Overtoun Bridge in Scotland, where dogs throw themselves off a fifty foot drop at the rate of one to two per month. Some that don't die, climb back up and do it again.
LkQ59 Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful "whole-brain preparation" of a mammal was developed in the mid-1980s. A neuroscientist at NYU Langone Medical Center named Rodolfo Llinás came up with a way to keep the brain of a young guinea pig alive in a fluid-filled tank for the length of a standard workday.
MeyWW TIL in 1987 Ruthie Mae McCoy was murdered by assailants hiding in her apartment walls that crawled out of her bathroom mirror cabinet.