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TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off gamma radiation and are growing towards the reactor core.

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a7EA TIL that the eye has a blind spot and here’s a test so you can not see for yourself
4X6Ko TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb...with 5 fingers, suggesting her brain "knew" what a hand was supposed to feel like.
v1kkL TIL: Most musicians of the eastern European dance/hip-hop/rock/pop band "Carla's Dreams," even while getting songs onto (Euro-) top airplay charts, have managed to keep their identities secret for almost a decade. They perform while wearing masks.
R5k16 TIL: In very rare cases, certain Bottlenose dolphins are born with remains of legs.
b6RgE TIL the proud American motto “e pluribus unum”, or “out of many, one” was originally used by a Roman poet to describe pesto.