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TIL: 93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching

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BWXD TIL There’s a mushroom that grows in the wild and tastes like fried chicken. It’s name is Laetiporus.
epExJ TIL in 1912 Republican presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette gave a speech to a group of 500 journalists in which he berated the group as being corrupt and working with the trusts. The group was shocked and thought he had a mental breakdown; a friend quipped he’d “killed himself politically.”
6EE7 TIL Justin Timberlake had a company figure out his concerts’ carbon footprints and paid to have trees and bushes planted in those cities to offset carbon impact during nationwide tour [PDF]
8agRL TIL there are more than 3,800 types of potato in Peru
p81Eb TIL that horsehair worms are parasites. The can live inside a cricket and control it boosting chemicals in its host's brain. They also eat all cricket's stored-up fat and crickets lose their chirp.