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TIL that before trees were common, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

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W81N TIL about the lake peigne urban disaster in Louisiana, in which an oil drill broke through into a salt mine and caused a whirlpool that swallowed the whole lake and part of an island
yjoe TIL the U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees
jNmNN TIL that in 2007 the musician Shaggy was awarded the Jamaican Order of Distinction with the rank of Commander, meaning his proper title is "Commander Shaggy".
X85D TIL Fifteen years ago, an amateur astronomer discovered an asteroid that turned out to be part of an Apollo rocket that disappeared 30 years earlier.
jMpM TIL the most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was Operation Meetinghouse - The American firebombing of Tokyo.