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TIL there is a form of edible wood.

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pY4OG TIL of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who was the Chicago Mafia’s main man in Los Angeles. Korshak went to his death, without so much as a criminal indictment against him, let alone a conviction.
yN6J TIL George Jones drove a riding lawnmower 8 miles to buy liquor.
xlM1 TIL that since 1989 the federal government has paid $2.4 billion in awards for 3100+ injuries/deaths proven to have been caused by adverse reactions to vaccinations. Not a single one of the 4,564 claims of vaccine-caused autism was found to have merit.
l7Ey5 TIL of ant-fungus mutualism. Leafcutter ants cut leaves and transport them back to their nests, where the leaves are used to cultivate fungus which is used as a food crop. In some advanced genera the queen ant may take a pellet of the fungus with her when she leaves to start a new colony.
yVbPp TIL no football matches can be broadcast live on UK television between 2.45pm and 5.15pm on a Saturday