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TIL Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than plants, they are neither plants or animals

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8NeZ TIL That analysis of dog mitochondrial DNA suggests that all dogs can be traced back to the domestication of wolves 11,000 to 16,000 years ago in South West China.
JYkp4 TIL that Eunice Hunton Carter, a black female assistant district attorney, built the investigative case resulting in the 1936 conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano. She was the first African American woman both to graduate from Fordham Law School, and then to serve as ADA in New York.
wa7Y TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with turning base metal to gold that samples of his hair showed mercury levels up to 40 times higher than average. This is considered to be the reason he went mad in his later years.
GAlM4 TIL about the Wire of Dead, an electric fence along the whole border of Belgium and The Netherlands erected during WWI by the Germans to prevent anyone escaping to Neutral The Netherlands.
YpXrv TIL Hawaiian shirts are called 'Aloha shirts' in Hawaii. More subdued versions are "considered formal wear in business and government and are thus regarded as equivalent to a shirt, coat, and tie". Everyone wears Hawaiian shirts to work every day.