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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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lon6K TIL - Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, and also passed a body awareness test. These two tests are very rarely passed by non-primates.
4XvPo TIL hurricane names are established years in advance, and 2019's list includes a Karen
0reA TIL nearly ¼ of all mammal species are bats.
5VgWP TIL of the Frog Test, a pregnancy test where a woman’s urine was injected into a frog, and if it started ovulating, the woman was pregnant. It was used in the 1940s-60s and was surprisingly accurate.
GYKj5 TIL that Randy Johnson, an MLB pitcher known for accidentally hitting and killing a bird with one of his pitches on 3/24/2001, has a dead bird as the logo of his photography company.