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TIL that kelp isn’t actually a plant, it’s part of a fourth group of organisms called protists.

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yQNdp TIL in 1998, during a soccer game in the DR Congo a lightning strike killed all 11 members of a soccer team while everyone on the opposing team survived unscathed.
NOoE TIL one in three lesbian women report being sexually assaulted by another women, roughly two times higher than the national average for women.
R188 TIL That not only are trees and other plants interconnected, but trees will trade food between one another; a sick tree will transfer its energy stores to other healthy trees including trees of other species along with distress signals that may help other trees prepare themselves for trouble.
vGBR TIL that cats (mainly female) bring you dead animals such as mice because they don’t think you could have caught one on your own, all to teach you their hunting wisdom under natural instinct
JvmQ TIL Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s, went back to school in 1993 to get his GED because he was worried that his success as a high school dropout might convince some children to quit school.