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TIL John Hughes wrote the original script that became Dumb And Dumber

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GAKGJ TIL The largest living organism on Earth is not a whale or a tree but a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the "humongous fungus," which spans over 2,385 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.
KOe9Q TIL of 'Taxus voor hoop', a Dutch initiative to collect pruning leftovers of Yew trees/bushes from gardens to produce cancer treatment drugs
x91o TIL in WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
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YdLP TIL that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given over $33bn in grants to health programmes around the world. Its work focuses on prevention, immunisation and vaccination.