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TIL There are mushrooms thriving on radiation inside the sarcophagus in Chernobyl.

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j6eOR TIL that Mewing is a form of “orthotropics” where you can supposedly change the shape of your jawline by the placement of your tongue in your mouth. John Mew coined the idea and was recently stripped of his dental license.
5Vldn TIL that Venus Fly Traps only grow in a small area of the American Carolina.
78DMr TIL: In the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlands, cassette data storage was so popular in the 80s that some radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record onto cassette and then load into their computer.
69RKJ TIL of Hippoboscoidea, a superfamily of flies that includes the non-flying 'bat-flies', used to be called Pupipara because the larva grows inside their mother who lays downs pupas instead of eggs.
AAMx TIL Bill Nye has gotten three honorary Doctorate Degrees, for being Bill Nye.