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TIL The thick white rind on the outside of a wheel of brie cheese is actually mold, Penicillum candidum

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kJoXm TIL of Edward Leedskalnin, a man with fourth grade education, who solely built the Coral Castle with over 1,100 tons of coral rock, using only hand tools. When asked how, his reply was that he understood the laws of weight and leverage. Today, it is a museum open to the public.
NXpmE TIL between 1970 and 1976 alone, between 25 and 50 percent of Native American women were sterilized.
mVYy TIL that Coca-Cola played a major role in getting King & Spalding, a powerful Atlanta law firm, to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act by threatening to change firms.
nW4o7 TIL serial killer John Wayne Gacy lived and worked at a mortuary in Las Vegas years before committing murder. While employed at the mortuary, Gacy would talk to the corpses, take off their clothes, and on one occasion he slept in a coffin with a dead teenage boy.
nW7yY TIL that many opal stones are actually made up of fossilized marine microbes, including diatoms and radiolarians.