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TIL: Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals

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awGXM TIL that the infamous "miserable pile of secrets" line from Castlevania predates the game series, first appearing in Antimémoires by André Malraux
EZ80 TIL that a rare species of Iguana was discovered by John Gibbons, a herpetologist, while watching the 1980 film “The Blue Lagoon”
R441 TIL In 1575 Native Americans, converting to Catholicism, had brought the practice of smoking into churches during the liturgy. Tobacco smoke, in their traditions, evoked the spirits, so naturally they mixed their smoke into the liturgical incense.
GkbN TIL there is a micro nation in Nevada named Molossia that consists only of a house, front yard and back yard. It also declared war on east Germany.
R5Ndj Til about Prester John, the mythical Christian King who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. Today, it is believed this Chrstian country may have been Ethopia.