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TIL there is a mushroom that tastes like chicken

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JYBmj TIL that 98% of the marine fish found in the aquarium hobby cannot be bred on a commercial scale in captivity; they are instead stunned using cyanide poison to enable capture, a process which not only kills many of the fish caught this way, but also destroys a square yard of the worlds ailing reefs
8amyX TIL An Indonesian man who claimed to be world’s oldest person died at ‘age 146’ in 2017. According to his identity card, Sodimejo was born on Dec. 31, 1870 but Indonesia only started recording births in 1900
epNRD TIL researchers found that people couldn't tell the difference between human & AI-generated poetry, and even preferred the latter. AI-generated poems scored higher than their human-written counterparts in attributes such as “creativity”, “atmosphere” and “emotional quality”.
X07JP TIL that soft tissues, like biological cells, really can preserve in dinosaur bones. Maybe even some biomolecules like proteins!
4XZ9a TIL about Jack Churchill, a soldier in WW2 that went into battle carrying a sword, a bow and arrows, and a bagpipe.