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rgdo TIL The largest living organism is a fungus that covers 3.7 square miles in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. The fungus, armillaria ostoyae, could be as old as 8650 years.
G5o5 TIL Peanut butter in a plastic jar at the supermarket usually has a sell-by date of about 18 months after it hits the shelf. Past this date, if it’s unopened it’s still perfectly good. Opened, peanut butter will slowly develop off-flavors of rancid nuts over the next five or so years.
rRoGW TIL Charles-Henri Sanson, official executioner of France from 1778-1795, who executed 2918 people - including King Louis XVI - with his own hand, intended for his eldest son to inherit his position, but that son died in 1792 after slipping off a scaffold as he displayed a severed head to the crowd
XEgpQ TIL Miss Piggy has never appeared in an episode of Sesame Street
Mep4K TIL there is a shortage in chemotherapy treatment medications across the USA due to the slim profit margins that medical companies make from them.