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TIL that in 2017 Saudi Prince Bought Plane Tickets for His 80 Falcons

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9wlPD TIL that in 1948 that thousands of comic books were burned due to the thoughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham who saw a correlation between delinquents and reading comic books.
e0d0k TIL Trees communicate with each other mainly through the use of underground networks made of fungi that grow around their roots. These networks are called mycorrhizal networks. Mycorrhizal networks connect individual plants (like trees) together into a communication network via their roots.
ZpZOG TIL: Of the existence of "Road Trains" mostly used in Australia - they're massive semi-trucks that usually pull up to 4 trailers at once but the world record is a "train" of 112 trailers (1.5km) long.
rJ8e TIL that Queen Victoria’s tradition of a white wedding dress was not symbolic of purity, but rather a calculated political statement and economic strategy.
Om66 TIL Ancient Mesoamericans discovered how to produce rubber around 1600BCE, more than 3000 years before Charles Goodyear invented vulcanization.