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TIL fungi (i.e mushrooms, yeast, mould) are more closely related to us humans than to plants

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J1RO1 TIL about the Torino Scale, a tool used to determine the likelihood of an asteroid impact with Earth.
QJ709 TIL Human Evolution solves the same problem in different ways. Native Early peoples adapted to high altitudes differently: In the Andes, their hearts got stronger, in Tibet their blood carries oxygen more efficiently.
9lr7 TIL NASA Managers claimed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a catastrophic failure aboard Challenger, but Richard Feynman discovered that NASA’s Engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in 200.
eQZ6 TIL 70,000 Americans REALLY DID move to Canada because they didn’t like the way American politics were heading–15% of Loyalists moved to Canada and other parts of the British empire to protest American victory in the Revolutionary war
kJ8Je TIL that Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda, DK) told Retro Studios developers: “Please take care of DK. He is my friend" after a pitch meeting in Kyoto.