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TIL there is a species of fungus that only exists in Texas and rural Japan, and is thought to have been in both places for 19 million years

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O1v6 TIL Dumb people over estimate their abilities. Smart people under estimate their abilities. Dunning-Kruger.
Me8b0 TIL the world's oldest living organism is 13,000 years old and is a shrub in Pennsylvania.
rReNe TIL the iconic iPod headphone wires appeared white but is called "moon gray" because Steve Jobs was instinctively against white products.
rRgZ0 TIL the reversing falls of the St John River in New Brunswick, Canada where not only does the river change flow direction during the day due to the incoming water from the changing tides in the Bay of Fundy it also becomes still for short periods called slack tides where the flow forces are equal.
l76RN TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.