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TIL There used to be mushroom farms in the Paris Catacombs

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YpEWB TIL about Self-plagiarism, when you reuse portion of your own work without acknowledging that you're doing so or citing the original work.
GYbME TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins originally wanted to be a composer. He released an album that topped the UK classical charts in 2012. At the age of 26, he composed a waltz that was finally performed 47 years later by André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra, who specializes in waltzes.
LnX0 TIL in the mid-1980s, before digital circuitry became affordable, Nissan used tiny vinyl records for their voice warning system (to tell drivers doors were open, for example)
Lrjr TIL: Skull fragments Soviets claimed to be Hitler have been DNA tested and said to be that of a woman.
JYQRj TIL that when a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.