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TiL: Paul Stamets (of Discovery) is a real life mycologist here on earth! (paulstamets.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is probably old news to other people but I only just noticed this. Seems like a pretty interesting guy!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is also an episode of Hannibal where a killer is burying people alive and growing mushrooms out of them. They consult a doctor called Stamets in that episode. It seems to be a running gag to name any mushroom related person in a show after the real life mushroom dude.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm going to keep an eye out now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Blew my mind a little bit when I discovered this fact. Really nice little touch from the writers. The IRL Stamets is an incredibly interesting guy.