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TIL mushroom picking is a deeply-rooted tradition in Poland. And because of this, the country has gathered quite a list of diverse species.

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e0An TIL that on the 30th anniversary of Pacman, when Google changed their logo to a playable version of Pacman. Companies reported a drop in productivity and around 4.8 million hours of work productivity was lost that day, as a result there was an estimated loss of $120,000,000 worldwide.
BrKQk TIL for 20 years, the wooden pieces for every Scrabble set in North America were manufactured in Fairfax, Vermont. FYI, in the US, the standard Scrabble sets had wooden tiles, and the deluxe ones had plastic, but in Europe, it was the other way around.
Yp91d TIL a study of peer-reviewed journals in the field of genomics found that 19.6% of studies contained data errors created by Microsoft Excel. That's because some genes with names like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were automatically being converted by Excel into dates.
8lgL TIL that Canada didn’t gain FULL sovereignty from the UK until 1982.
nGro TIL there was a man-made famine genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 that was hidden from media up until the 1980s