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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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loy01 TIL Fatboy Slim owns a 12% stake in Brighton & Hove Albion. A team he helped save from extinction after their owners sold their football stadium to property developers.
REG4 TIL the melted butter topping served in movie theaters is mostly canola oil with additives mixed in
EBJd TIL: Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five and only four condors have ever been recorded:
rNk4W TIL about the pop-star Aaliyah who died in a plane crash in 2001. Aaliyah refused to get on the plane, as she was worried about how safe it was, so one of her entourage slipped her a sedative and carried her onboard unconscious.
X8YX TIL Spacesuits take 5,000 hours to make and cost around $1 million.