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TIL lightning stimulates accelerated growth in mushrooms. Japanese mushroom farmers use their own "artificially induced lighting " to increase yield.

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kMrg TIL that in Korea, everyone is 1 from the time they are born. And everyone gets a year older on New Year’s day.
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