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TIL Jeff Bridges’ grandchildren call him “DudePa”

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P8pO TIL Karl Marx believed capitalism had the best chance of saving the world (but worried it was vulnerable to being overtaken by corporate fascism) which is why he wrote about it so much.
m15XY TIL there is a species of mushroom that infects and zombifies carpenter ants. The mushroom slowly takes control of the ant’s motor functions and leads them away from the colony to die in a place ideal for growing. Then the mushroom grows out of the ant’s head.
VaOp TIL that for 10 years after WWII, there was a fourth network on American broadcast television called The DuMont Television Network. The network folded in 1956, and today it has been all but forgotten because most of its archives were destroyed.
NkoE TIL a Swedish scientist conducted the first study of the global greenhouse effect in 1896 by using infrared measurements of the atmosphere
VDM8 TIL two MIT grads are designing a nuclear power plant that can use nuclear waste as a source of fuel, produce 75 times more energy per ton of fuel, and utilize 96% of supplied fuel, vs only 4% used with traditional designs. It will also be virtually accident proof and cheap to build.