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TIL The Dutch Navy once Surrendered to French Cavalry
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TIL There is an old English unit of volume called a “butt”, approx 477L. There is such a thing as a “butt load”.
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TIL Sharon Tate dreamed her death two years before she was murdered
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TIL Oyster Mushrooms (white edible mushrooms that grow on dead trees) are carnivorous. They have microscopic lassos that attract nematodes with a chemical, then constrict around the nematode and release a toxin that paralyzes the nematode so they can absorb nitrogen from them.
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TIL that public hangings at the West Virginia State Penitentiary were stopped in 1931 when a prisoner was decapitated by the hanging process
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TIL Things like brass doorknobs and silverware sterilize themselves as they naturally kill bacteria because of something called the Oligodynamic effect