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

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1ajRW TIL that it was possible to buy your way out of the Civil War draft, on both the Union and Confederate sides, if you had enough money to pay someone else to sign up in your place.
w4NE TIL comedian Albert Brooks changed his name when he entered show business. His real name is Albert Einstein
8a4BL TIL the forest products industry's answer to "The Lorax" was "The Truax", which taught kids the importance of logging.
7L8x TIL Numbuh 1 of the Kids Next Door is loosely based on Jean-Luc Picard. They are both naturally bald, red shirt wearing englishman leaders who never have good experiences handling women. For Halloween Numbuh 1 even dressed as a member of the Borg.
MP6V TIL Queen Sunanda Kumariratana of Siam (now Thailand) drowned in 1880 in full view of many onlookers – because they were forbidden to touch her, they couldn’t rescue her