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TIL that if all the spores of a single giant puffball mushroom had a 100% germination success, followed by the same for its offspring, the resulting mass of fungi would amount to 800 times the volume of Earth

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woeaE TIL The first (UAV) unmanned, remote controlled, video camera guided aircraft assault drone was built in 1942
Y76nZ TIL that Clifford Johnson, the most severely burned survivor of 1942's horrific Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, underwent several hundred operations. He married his nurse and returned home to Missouri. Years later, he burned to death in a fiery automobile crash.
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