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

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XE77X TIL lack of personal hygiene and body smell is such an issue at Super Smash Bros tournaments that some tournaments now disqualify players not keeping up with hygiene and even resorted to passing out deodorant.
A9pn TIL A Holocaust Survivor enlisted in the U.S Army, he was later taken P.O.W and kept him and his unit alive by sneaking out and stealing food, a skill he learning while in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
J1Zjl TIL a castle in France has been under construction since 1997 using only 13th-century techniques, tools, and local materials: The Guédelon Castle
e0v56 TIL: One of the shortest operas which is regularly performed concerns the emotional lives of two unhappily married couples as they play a hand of Bridge.