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TIL “White” mushrooms are just immature portobello mushrooms.

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YpQjZ TIL at the age of 14, in 1905, Charles de Gaulle wrote a short story titled "General De Gaulle" in which he imagined himself leading the French Army to victory over Germany "sometime in the 1930s."
jmMj TIL that a da Vinci painting “Madonna of the Yarwinder” was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle by two thieves posing as tourists who claimed to be undercover police. It was found four years later in a lawyer’s office in Glasgow.
R5ew6 TIL that JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, often seen as a nostalgic tribute to Britain's naval glory, may actually reflect his admiration for progress and modernity challenging the widely held belief that the painting mourns the past
4MKo TIL that Franklin Roosevelt was the first sitting US president to ride aboard an airplane, over 40 years after its invention.
MexDK TIL in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the punishment for theft was amputation of the right hand and a branding on the forehead. Doctors who performed cosmetic procedures to hide the brand would have their right hand amputated and have their forehead branded.