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

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xVQ60 TIL that FIFA effectively banned women's football/soccer on an international scale for 50 years (1921-1971) by outlawing the playing of women's games on Association members' pitches.
DaDD TIL: The CN Tower in Canada is actually the tallest building in the westen hemisphere, and was the tallest building in the world for 30 years. Other building owners figured they could make two classifications, “Tower” and “Building”, so they could sound as if they were taller.
N7AyQ TIL That Super Sentai (The Show Power Rangers Uses Footage From) Had A Season End With A Ranger Being Killed By A Random Mugger.
x6e5g TIL about SubTropolis, a giant former limestone mine under Kansas City that was converted into the world’s largest underground business complex. The 1,100-acre complex is accessed through tunnels, and as of 2015, 1,600 people worked there.
oRgaY TIL while as few as a dozen workers died from accidents during the 1826–1832 construction of Ottawa's Rideau Canal, an estimated 1,000 died due to disease (primarily malaria)