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TIL Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants

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0WJp TIL that there are 7 different kinds of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Half-Identical, Mirror Image, Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, Superfetation.
p8e9N TIL the reason that Johnny Cash flipped the bird to the camera in the iconic photo was to send a message to the prison warden. The photographer Jim Marshall had asked Johnny to express what he thought of the prison authorities.
1ajRW TIL that it was possible to buy your way out of the Civil War draft, on both the Union and Confederate sides, if you had enough money to pay someone else to sign up in your place.
D1yND TIL Bowling was originally done with 9 pins in America, until 9-pin bowling was banned; so 10-pin bowling was created as a loophole to keep the sport going
0w4QR TIL famed comic book creator Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil :Born Again, 300) also wrote Vanilla Ice's Ninja Rap from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2:The Secret Of the Ooze.