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TIL portabello mushrooms, button mushrooms, and white mushrooms are all the same mushroom at different levels of maturity.

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BRak TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.
5YlKr TIL: To date, the 3 astronauts of the Soyuz 11 are the only people to have died in space.
8KyL TIL When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever. If a male finds a female, he latches on and fuses to her, losing his internal organs until they share a bloodstream.
pZKQ TIL Stephen King wrote the book Misery as a fuck you to his fans who complained about The Eyes of the Dragon, which was written for his children, not being a horror book.
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