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TIL Clint Eastwood is an anagram for “Old West action”

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LLxp TIL a mycologist named Paul Stamets argues mushrooms will revolutionize our way of life by using the mycelium fungus to clean polluted soil, make insecticides, treat smallpox and even flu viruses.
GYND7 TIL that the desert planet of Tatootine in Star Wars was originally meant to be a jungle planet. One of the producers found sites in the Philippines, but thought director George Lucas would be "itchy" from all of the filming in the jungle, so Lucas decided to make Tatootine a desert planet.
kOj8e TIL that in Cinderella's Vietnamese version, the heroine boiled her stepsister alive and tricked her stepmother into eating her cooked body
RkM6 TIL that blue lighting in public restrooms prevents heroin users from finding veins and shooting up
dpM8 TIL Warren Buffet has won a $1 million bet for 6 out of the last 7 years that the S&P 500 will beat a famous hedge fund portfolio return’s