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16xy4 TIL that “elephant-sized” sloths and “car-sized” armadillos once built giant tunnels that still stand today
JYjNQ TIL button, cremini & portobello are all the same type of mushroom at different stages of maturity
4XKZR TIL in one of hundreds of his dangerous visits to the Chernobyl disaster site, nuclear inspector Artur Korneyev was able to take a photo of himself in 1996 near the Elephant Foot, a radioactive mass that initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour
W7D7L TIL Festival of the Sacred Pitcher(Kumbh Mela) is an important Hindu pilgrimage, celebrated approximately every 4 or 12 years in India, correlated with the partial or full revolution of Jupiter. It is the largest peaceful gathering of people in the world.
OGlwa TIL about Edgardo Mortara a jewish boy who was secretly baptized by a catholic servant. After the church learned what happened he was removed from his family.