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TIL that the Giant Puffball Mushroom has the the most progeny of any living thing. 7 trillion spores. If each of the spores from two generations produced a mushroom they would have a combined size 800 times the size of earth!

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B5mk TIL 17x swimming champ Shavarsh Karapetyan after a 12mile run heard a bus crash into the water.Dove 30 feet breaking the backwindow saving 20 lives 1 at a time.Ended his sports career from cuts he received by broken glass,raw sewage in the water getting into his lungs.He was ina coma for 45days.
VAOm TIL Hippopotamuses sweat red. Known as “Blood sweat”, it has antibacterial & water-resistant sunscreen properties. Adult Hippos can run faster than humans. They can’t swim or float. They spin their tails while defecating to distribute their excrement over the greatest possible area to mark territory
e9j6 TIL Kidney beans are toxic and possibly deadly if not pre-soaked and boiled for at least 10 minutes. Poisoning can be induced from as few as five raw beans.
4XA0b TIL that the identity of the "House of the Rising Sun" is unknown. Only 3 buildings in New Orleans ever had the name 'Rising Sun' during the time the song emerged. Some theories say it was a hotel, a brothel, a jailhouse, or a Creole mansion. Some believe that it never actually existed at all.
4XPEw TIL: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat in a contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple.