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TIL of Phallaceae, AKA "Stinkhorn" fungus, a fungus that emits a foul smell to attract flies, beetles, and other insects to disperse the spores.

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W7rX4 TIL that in 1697 the puritan woman Hannah Duston was kidnapped by Abenaki natives who killed her newborn baby in front of her. She and two other captives staged a revolt and scalped ten of the Abenaki before escaping.
r1x TIL KFC had to pay the real Colonel Sanders $1 Million to stop publicly hating on their chicken
VB5ZG TIL: In the "Battle of the 300 Champions" between Sparta and Argos in 546 BC. Rather than wasting the lives of their armies, both agreed to use 300 men and sent the rest home. 2 Argives and 1 Spartan survived. The Argives left thinking they won, so technically the Spartan was the last man standing.
WNwd TIL, whereas WWI killed over 10 million people, it was followed by the flu pandemic that killed upwards of 100 million.
N7nbb TIL the story of Zeus, a 9 year old pitbull-mix from Montana who was stolen by a family "friend" and found 2k miles away in West Virginia after the thief was arrested. Zeus had a microchip with contact info but was too big to fly so 15 strangers volunteered to drive him home across 9 states .