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TIL Mushrooms are the only non-animal food with Vitamin D and their vitamin D levels can be increased by placing them in the sun, just like humans

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p0WO TIL The Ottoman Empire still existed when the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
ANZll TIL while struggling to sell stories as a writer, George RR Martin capitalized on the early 1970s chess craze (due to Bobby Fischer's win) and was a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association.
0d865 TIL about the village of Al-Araqeeb— demolished and rebuilt over 200 times since 1948
QnOe TIL science fiction writer Isaac Asimov died from complications of HIV due to a blood transfusion. For the next 10 years, the public wasn’t told he died of HIV.
rkj0 TIL that the license plate of Agent Smith’s car in the Matrix Reloaded is “IS 5416” - referencing Isaiah 54:16, which states “Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have the waster to destroy.”