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TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.

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JYnyv TIL that musical prodigy Alma Deutscher was the subject of her linguist father's language experiments. He never told her the sky was "blue" in an effort to understand why ancient cultures never used the term for the sky. Her perceptions and name for the sky, "white", were reported in his 2010 book.
a8vPM TIL that the world's most poisonous mushroom is the Death Cap which is very common in Britain. It contains the toxin amanitin and is responsible for 90% of all deaths by fungus. They resemble other edible mushrooms such as the paddy straw. There was no known antidotes for death cap poisoning.
N77M6 TIL: You’re not safe from spiders even in the water; There is a spider that hunts and lives under water. It traps air bubbles to breathe from while it dives for food.
w0d1 TIL When a male honey bee orgasms, it’s testicles explode and it dies shortly after.
l7XWG TIL that as President-Elect, US Pres. James Buchanan improperly wrote to a Supreme Court justice asking him to vote pro-slavery in the Dred Scott case. The court would rule 7-2 that Scott was a possession, not a person, and denied his petition for freedom