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TIL: That fungi have a range of vital roles from helping plants draw water + nutrients from soil to medicines that can lower blood cholesterol or enable organ transplants. But they have a darker side: devastating trees, crops, other plants across the world and wiping out animals such as amphibians.

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LKY0 TIL that days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division. This was the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II.
4k0ja TIL- Famous writer Larry Niven advised homeland security to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.
6Lom TIL of “Methuselah Trusts,” trust funds designed to accumulate massive wealth over hundreds of years through the power of compound interest. One such trust, set up for Hartwick College in 1936, was so massive, it was feared it “could ultimately shatter the nation’s financial structure.”
M7GKV TIL in 1997, Lottie Williams was walking in a park when she felt a tap on her shoulder. After turning around and seeing no one there, she found that a piece of mesh had fallen from the sky and tapped her. An analysis revealed the mesh was from a Delta II rocket on re-entry.
V5Q0 TIL that ‘paddywhack’ is the nuchal ligament of sheep and cattle - often dried to make a dog treat! (With a knick-knack paddywhack, give the dog a bone…)