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TIL there is a mushroom that tastes like chicken

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x6aR7 TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies (1985), is now a Hollywood lawyer and actually negotiated the contract of his former Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan (played Data in Goonies) for his casting in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
L0A9 TIL 12 years ago Portugal decriminalized all hard drugs. Today, drug abuse is down half of what it was in their country.
gMLG7 TIL: in 2015, NYPD went on strike to show how important they were to the city and later studies showed the rates of crimes actually decreased
PwYZ TIL in Polish Scrabble, Z is only worth 1 point.
PYDPZ TIL in 2009 the Large Hadron Collidor was temporally disabled by a bird dropping a chunk of baguette on an electrical substation. In 2016, the LHC was again shut down, this time by a weasel.