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TIL: Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants.

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5VArD TIL that Junko Furuta, a kidnapping and murder victim, was upset that she would never see the last episode of Tonbo (Dragonfly とんぼ). Hiroshi Miyano stuffed a VHS of the episode in a concrete drum with her corpse, not out of remorse or regret, but because he did not want her to haunt him as a ghost
1aZGP TIL that in 2012 Facebook ran psychological experiments on users to study "emotional contagion" without consent of users or pre-approval from ethics boards. Facebook was able to prove that it could alter the moods of users by changing algorithms of users news feeds.
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