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TIL that mushrooms create their own breeze if there’s no wind to spread their spores

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0w471 TIL "Blah Blah Blah" saying came from Ancient Greece. The term was "bar bar bar". Taken from the same root as barbarian, it implied the words beings spoken were "meaningless noises",
LkgaZ TIL There is a boiling river in Peru that kills everything that falls into it
a1oA TIL Winston Churchill smoked 8-10 cigars everyday. Legend has it that when meeting with foreign heads of state, Churchill would insert a straightened paper clip into his cigar to keep the ash from falling and unnerve the other man with the distractingly long ash.
0w4jy TIL of 'fan death': the belief in Korea that running a fan in a room with no open windows will always prove fatal. Timers are built into Korean fans so they don't stay turned on over night.
dvXj TIL - The French proposed the use of ‘Decimal’ time, with 10 hours in a day, and 100 minutes in an hour, etc.