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TIL when the face of Italian fashion model Fabio, which has graced the cover of hundreds of romance novels, got struck by a goose on a roller coaster, he refused to sue, saying that he was not interested in profiting from the accident, but only wanted the park to install proper safety measures.

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5YpMk TIL Mature Douglas Fir trees can send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi. Birches can loan carbon to fir trees in the summer, while firs pay it back in fall. Trees of different species can share nitrogen leached from salmon leftovers from a bear's lunch.
VBmpZ TIL: the design of the 'Single Leaf' Flag of Canada was designed and implemented as recently as 1964
0wvB5 TIL Actor Cary Grant experimented with LSD in the late 1950's an estimated 100 times and stated that it was the solution after many years of "searching for his peace of mind", and that for first time in his life he was "truly, deeply and honestly happy".
woM9W TIL The Ancient Greeks had a type of cup that was intentionally shaped like a woman's breast. It even had a "nipple" on the bottom! Experts are unsure exactly what the purpose of them was, but some seem to have been left as offerings to gods linked to childbirth and child rearing.
kOWG7 TIL about The Carrington Event, the most powerful solar flare recorded. If this were to happen today, the impact on power grids, telecommunications, internet, crops, satellite communications and GPS systems would be $1 trillion to $2 trillion.