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TIL Hollywood elites signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski

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xVD1k TIL of the Octopus Stinkhorn. The fungus erupts from the egg by forming into four to seven elongated slender arms. The arms unfold to reveal a pinkish-red interior covered with a dark-olive spore-containing gleba. In maturity it smells like putrid flesh.
mDlE TIL it’s 1437 in the Islamic calendar, but their year is only 354 days long — meaning the Islamic year will eventually match our year on exactly May 1, 20874 AD
7rbP TIL Ireland is the only land in religious history in which there was no bloodshed when the induction of Christianity occurred
xVWo TIL the host nation in the Olympics automatically qualifies for all events.
X0J9X TIL: three different cardiac surgeons (Norwood, Glenn, Fontan) independently came up with surgeries to fix babies’ congenital heart defects. Nowadays the surgeries are done one after another as part of one mega treatment (“staged” reconstruction)