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Today I learned about the "Wood Wide Web", which is how trees not only "communicate" information to one another, but also share nutrients and they can even sabotage each other via this network of roots and fungi.

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Awbd TIL that the Canadian penny was taken out of circulation and is saving taxpayers $11 million a year
p8MR8 TIL that the grocery store chain ALDI has a system with there carts, that they are locked to each other. The only way to unlock one, is to insert a quarter.
BWeD TIL that Eric Clapton said about Jimi Hendrix, “Pete Townshend and I went to see him play. I thought that was it, the game was up for all of us, we may as well pack it in.”
QNWrE TIL Slaves in ancient Rome would often sleep on the same bedroom as their masters, or right outside. The lack of privacy was such that Romans would joke about slaves having their ears glued to the door and masturbating to their masters having sex
Bgek TIL Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.