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TIL: Only 0.7% of people in India are Buddhists. Apart from the Himalayas and niche locations, Buddhism was virtually extinct in India by the end of the 19th century.

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7rrmL TIL Oyster Mushrooms (white edible mushrooms that grow on dead trees) are carnivorous. They have microscopic lassos that attract nematodes with a chemical, then constrict around the nematode and release a toxin that paralyzes the nematode so they can absorb nitrogen from them.
neNmr TIL there is a rare type of fluffy frost called hair ice that only forms on rotting wood. It baffled scientists for decades until 2015, when scientists determined that fungal activity was largely responsible for the ice formation.
DQ0jr TIL about William Hoy, the most accomplished deaf player in MLB history. He couldn’t hear the umpire’s ball & strike calls, & the stadium had no scoreboard for him to follow the count. So, the third-base coach signaled to him by raising his left index finger for a ball, the right for a strike.
NXPrE TIL in 2011 the burial site of a "sorcerer" from the late Holocene was discovered near Adelaide in Australia
5VA9n TIL that Tom Cruise did over 500 Skydives and 13,000 Motocross jumps in order to prepare for a single stunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One