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TIL: the parasitic 'Honey' Mushroom (Armillaria mellea) is both one of the oldest and largest single organisms in the world; roots stretching 8.8 square kilometres and somewhere between 2,000 and 9,000 years old!

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N97N TIL that after most US cities prohibited the use of lead pipes in the 1920’s, the Lead Industry Association mounted a propaganda campaign highlighting the “advantages” of lead over other materials. The LIA’s activities resulted in the proliferation of lead pipes for decades.
Z8pNa TIL- In 2015, a woman who lived in a house that straddled the NY/CT border lost half of her house because her mortgage provider did not pay the property taxes.
grdNL TIL “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper is a cover song, and the OG was sung by a man named Robert Hazard
Lk4A9 TIL that an off-brand Olympic Games competition was held in July 1980, called the Liberty Bell Classic, in Philadelphia. It was for the countries that boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
epwLg TIL Pedro Rodrigues Filho, one of Brazil's most prolific killers. Having killed between 71-100+ criminals as a vigilante (including his father), he was given a the maximum sentence in Brazil of 30 years. Filho now has a successful YouTube career with 250k subs