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TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it

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KYQXa TIL Luke Perry's character on Beverly Hills 90210, Dylan McKay, was named after Matt Dillon. The character is similar to Matt Dillon's portrayal of Dallas Winston in "The Outsiders" (1983)
5VQyR TIL that when "Blackmail" premiered in 1929 as the first British film with sound and dialogue, two years after American sound films hit British theaters, it was promoted with the tagline "See and Hear it! Our mother tongue as it should be spoken!"
xVwyb Today I learned that Vincent van Gogh cut his left ear, not his right one, as he's usually shown. This is because he painted his famous self-portrait using a mirror.
59OD TIL Krusty the Clown was supposed to be revealed to be Homer Simpsons secret identity but the idea was dropped being too complex
rNAX0 TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.