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TIL of the "Wood Wide Web", an underground network of fungal threads and other microbes that allows sharing of nutrients between different plant species.
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TIL Scrat from Ice Age(2002) was not based on a known mammal. However in 2011 fossilized remains were found in Argentina resembling Scrat.
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TIL while monkeys have the vocal cords to speak like humans do, their brains lack the wiring necessary to control their voices for precise tones. This prevents them from making the wide range of sounds necessary for speech. If their brains were wired like a human, they could theoretically talk.