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TIL of the "lizardman constant", which explains seemingly nonsensical poll results such as "4% of americans believe that lizards are running the earth" and "7% of americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows"

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YpryP TIL There's a Giant Mushroom in Oregon that is 8,650 years old and "is considered the largest and oldest organism on Earth".
JYPkB TIL that actor DJ Qualls is a cancer survivor and got his distinctive looks while in remission due to his extreme diet
XEr4R TIL that from 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests involving drugging people who didn't know they were being drugged, then following and watching them without intervening.
4R5b TIL Popeye the Sailor owns a dog-like creature whose cells leaked through from the fourth dimension, combined with cells from ours, and transmutated into a creature capable of moving between dimensions and solving difficult problems. His name is Eugene the Jeep.
VG8G TIL that due to a long controversy beginning around 2005, the Church of Scientology has been banned from editing any Wikipedia article relating to the group.