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TIL that catching a snake requires more patience than I have

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0w79R TIL the octopus stinkhorn, or devil's fingers, is a non-poisonous fungus found all over the world. The starfish-shaped fruiting body emerges vertically and spreads out, making the gleba accessible to insects which facilitate the distribution of spores. Mature stinkhorns smell like rotting flesh.
b997a TIL that a family lived in the Siberian wilderness for over 40 years without human contact.
GYn6j TIL The Ring Finders is a worldwide organization of metal-detection enthusiasts who recover lost items at little to no cost. Members have about an 80% success rate at finding last keys, rings, cellphones, time capsules, burial urns and more.
RYl8 TIL that Adidas, a German company, gave Jesse Owens free shoes to run in at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
6NBW TIL that radiologist Carl Tanzler, obsessed with one of his patients, exhumed her body after two years, encased it in wax and plaster of paris, and slept with it for another seven years.