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TIL that in a 2004 study, Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea reduced their risk of breast cancer by nearly 90%

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QZv6 TIL that “confession bear” is a sun bear named Ernst that was born in a Berlin zoo and is now living in Jihlava zoo in the Czech Republic under the name Adam
GG5G TIL for whatever reason, a German WW2 submarine captain decided not to call the trained technician and tried to operate the complex flush system himself after he had used the lavatory. He flooded the boat, forcing it to surface, where it was promptly spotted by the enemy and bombed out of the water.
5Y59P TIL Troy Leon Gregg, a death row inmate in Georgia, escaped the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight that very same night.
nW99Y TIL there is an area of Yellowstone National Park called the “Zone of Death”, where a legal loophole could theoretically allow someone to get away with murder if committed there.
woM1M TIL that France did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it still refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds".