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TIL parts of Tokyo’s transit system was designed by intelligent fungus.

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WkXWN TIL that Latvia once was an empire
OoaD4 TIL the worlds largest farm, Mudanjiang City Dairy Farm is located in China and covers an area of 22.5 million acres. This is the same size as Portugal.
x6LNw TIL about Sammy U, the little fella hidden in the Uhaul murals.
W7DMX TIL about Henry Wickham, the English "bio-pirate" who broke Brazil's global rubber monopoly in 1876 by smuggling 70,000 seeds to London. He lied to customs, and the resulting Asian plantations crashed the Brazilian economy.
6eDm TIL that a treasure hunter named Tommy Thompson located a ship that sank in 1857 called the SS Central America. The ship carried several tons of gold, and in 1987, he recovered over $1 billion worth of gold from it. He never paid back his crew or investors, and hasn’t been seen in years.