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TIL that eating raw shiitake mushrooms can cause an itchy rash that lasts for weeks., called shiitake flagellate dermatitis.

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mPAE TIL the New Horizons space probe, which is scheduled to reach Pluto in July 2015, has on board the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet in 1930.
5EAp TIL Scientists lit a hole filled with natural gas on fire in 1971, thinking it would burn for only a few days. The hole has been burning for the past 46 years and is called “The Door to Hell”
1Le8 TIL Wal-Mart gets sued nearly 20 times a day, close to 5,000 lawsuits each year.
nQBY TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day.
p86JA TIL: Potoroos are creatures that actually exist