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TIL Harvested Mushrooms Placed in Sunlight or Under a UV Lamp Produce Vitamin D2 in 15 Minutes!

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QNGNe TIL that Mel Brook's character in Blazing Saddles was named after a famous French flatulist, Joseph Pujol, better known by his stage name Le Pétomane.
Pr5n TIL: The UN Security Council in New York displays a copy of one of the first recorded peace treaties, the Egyptian-Hittite Treaty
rR5dw TIL of Thomas Francis Meagher, born 1823. He was an Irish nationalist, got exiled to Tasmania, escaped to New York, visited Costa Rica, fought in the Civil War, became governor of Montana, and died when he fell off a boat at age 43.
VBBOZ TIL fairy dust was not mentioned in the original version of Peter Pan, but the author added it as a neccessity to enable the children to fly because "so many children tried [to fly] from their beds and needed surgical attention."
9w7OD TIL Nellie Bly, the journalist who went undercover as a patient to investigate a mental health asylum, was also the same person to first travel the world in under 80 days