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TIL: Toby Spribille grew up in a trailer park without proper education; no American university would take him, but a German university decided to overlook it. In 2016 he overturned 150 years of biology with discovering that lichens are actually NOT alliances between two but three organisms

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Oo0oa TIL of 14 year old George Stinney, one of the youngest ever executed via electric chair, in 1944. Wrongfully convicted of murdering two white girls (aged 7 & 11), his frame was so small his face mask slipped off after the initial electric shock . His conviction was vacated in 2014.
LEop TIL that in 2000, a new food “invented” by Kim Jong-il called “Gogigyeopbbang” was introduced to North Koreans. It was described as “double bread with meat”, but took on the uncanny appearance of a conventional hamburger.
JYPXV TIL that in 2012, a woman on vacation in Iceland joined a police search party to help find someone who was reported missing, The search went on for hours before she found out that the person they were looking for was herself.
9YJRM TIL a scientist grew mold in a dish, placing it in the center representing Tokyo and oat flakes around it the other cities in the area. It first filled the space with plasmodia, and then thinned the network to focus on well connected branches. The network strikingly resembled Tokyo's rail system.
1BvO TIL Reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.