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TIL Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants

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rAjd TIL An orangutan from a zoo reintroduced to the wild in Borneo began spear fishing after watching local fisherman
gZNX TIL During the second World War, pharmaceutical giant Bayer used slave labour and even bought slaves from Auschwitz to use a human guinea pigs for new drugs.
kJrL4 TIL "The Diary of Anne Frank" was pulled out of a rejection pile at Doubleday by editor Judith Jones. After reading it all day, she insisted to her boss that it must be published. He said, 'What? That book by that kid?'
p70Q TIL Cuddling with your partner significantly improves the healing process of bruises and wounds due to the release of Oxytocin.
P1gZJ TIL that stock dilution is the decrease in existing shareholders' ownership percentage of a company as a result of the company issuing new equity. New equity increases the total shares outstanding which has a dilutive effect on the ownership percentage of existing shareholders.