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TIL button, cremini & portobello are all the same type of mushroom at different stages of maturity

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69M1J TIL darker skin people need more sunlight to make vitamin D. One experiment where a light skinned person was in sunlight for 8 hours saw their vitamin D concentration go up by 50x while a dark skinned person saw no change. They needed 5-10 times the sunlight length and then only saw a 30x change.
oBJ6W TIL Between 2011 and 2013, more cement was consumed in China than what was used across the entire US over the course of the 20th century
X01rr TIL Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood is a 2011 animated made-for-television comedy film based on the animated television series Johnny Bravo. It premiered on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand on November 4, 2011.
boEj TIL that Celebrity Talent International (CTI) is an agency that represents huge stars and books all kinds of appearances for them. A lot of the appearance fees are listed on their website.
wb78 TIL Astronauts have to sleep near a ventilator fan or they risk suffocating in a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide