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TIL Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants

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4kKk5 TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adams’ last words were ‘Thomas Jefferson survives’, but Jefferson died a few hours earlier.
D1nNJ TIL that in Sweden, Finland and Quebec a check mark (✓) means "wrong".
OoMwg TIL Milk must be offered at every meal if a United States school district wishes to get reimbursement from the federal government.
4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.
m1W5Y TIL using the instructed amount of washing detergent leaves clothes dirtier