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TIL that Mushrooms Communicate With Each Other Using A 50-Word Vocabulary

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b9YJQ TIL that the 'B' in the word 'doubt' is included to keep its original latin form 'doubitare' which is also the root for the word 'double' thus to imply the state of being double minded.
bW74 TIL Stanley Kubrick considered both Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for the lead role of Jack Torrance in The Shining. Kubrick didn’t think De Niro would suit the part as he deemed De Niro not psychotic enough. He deemed Williams too psychotic for the role.
awlRb TIL that songwriter Robert Sherman was struggling to write a catchy song for Julie Andrews to sing in Mary Poppins. When Robert's son received the polio inoculation, and he discovered the medicine was put on a sugar cube, he was inspired to write "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down."
gMVP8 TIL former Man vs. Food host Adam Richman was almost killed by Florida Man
po8N TIL of Jeanne de Clisson. After her husband was beheaded by the french, she sold all of her land and holdings to fund a pirate army. She hunted and destroyed all the French ships that they could. When she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.