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TIL that fungi live in the ocean too

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DQWgj TIL of the Scienceers, one of the first regularly meeting science fiction clubs and pioneers of the scifi fandom. The club's first leader, Warren Fitzgerald, was also the club's only black member. Additionally, one of the members was Mort Weisinger, who would go on to create Aquaman and Green Arrow.
5YjQ9 TIL that sentences with the sole purpose of annoying the reader exist and are called "garden path sentences". They make you go back and read the sentence again, an example is: "The old man the boat"
Z8NRB TIL one of the Dead Sea Scroll caves, discovered in 1952, contained up to 15,000 torn fragments. One archaeologist spent his life piecing them together, but died in 1979 with the work unfinished.
OoYPR TIL The limo JFK was assassinated in went to on be used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter before being retired in 1977
0w65p TIL that Adobe has developed a software that can detect Photoshoped images/faces with 99.4% accuracy