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TIL the world's largest organism is a fungus.
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TIL that Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke’s stunt doubles from the bungee jumping scene in Season 2 of Scrubs met on set that day. They are now married.
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TIL the 1969 Beatles song "Come Together" was written for Timothy Leary, who was running for California governor against Ronald Reagan, however Leary received a 20-year sentence for marijuana possession ending his bid.
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TIL on January 23, 1556 a massive earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck Shaanxi, China, killing over 850,000 people. This is the most devastating earthquake in recorded history.
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TiL the Mediterranean filled in just 2 years when the Atlantic breached what we know as the straight of Gibraltar.
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TIL the last English knight to be publicly degraded (stripped of knighthood) was Francis Mitchell in 1628. He’d committed extortion. His spurs were broken and thrown out, his belt cut, and his sword broken over his head. He was called "no longer a Knight but Knave" and led to the Tower of London.