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TIL that Camp David is named after the grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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W7QW9 TIL oyster mushrooms are not just a source of food, they can also be made into mycellium, which in turns can be used to make bricks and house furniture. They can also be used to decontaminate the environment, for example to treat soil that had been polluted with diesel oil.
dDNyd TIL Schizophrenics who are born deaf will hallucinate disembodied hands signing to them, rather than hearing voices.
OpmX TIL that in 1975, physicist Kip Thorne bet Stephen Hawking one year of issues of Penthouse Magazine that black holes exist. Thorne won.
4nnN TIL: In the original game Space Invaders, the game increasing speed as you killed aliens was due to the processor being able to render graphics faster as less aliens were on screen. This was an unintended “feature” they decided to keep as a gameplay mechanic.
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