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TIL only one species of gilled mushroom grows underwater.
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TIL that, while the Star Spangled Banner was written during the War of 1812, it didn’t become the United States national anthem until a few years before WWII - over a century later.
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TIL the will of P.L. Travers (writer of Mary Poppins) specifically forbid all future American adaptions of her work
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TIL top US government officials proposed committing acts of terror against US citizens in false flag attacks as a pretext to invade Cuba, before being denied by President Kennedy.
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TIL: Microsoft just updated their terms and specifically disallowed monetization of gameplay videos on YouTube
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TIL that, upon being appointed King of Holland by Napoleon, Louis Bonaparte arrived in Holland and exclaimed to a crowd, “I am the Rabbit of Holland” (Iek ben Konijn van Olland). He meant to say ‘lek ben Koning’ (I am the King). But the Dutch loved him anyways, and remember him as “Louis the Good.”