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TIL: Research has found a gift someone asked for explicitly is considered ‘more thoughtful and considerate’ than buying a surprise. Gift givers mistakenly think the reverse will be true.

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Z8Ap TIL While filming “The Shining”, Danny Lloyd (Danny) thought he was filming a drama. He didn’t realize it was a horror film until he was 13, and he didn’t see the movie in its entirety until he was 17.
JWok TIL: Every McIntosh apple is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s.
7rvyr 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.
BrbBK TIL that Ian Thomas (musician best known for "Painted Ladies") and Dave Thomas (best known as Doug Mackenzie of "Bob & Doug Mackenzie" fame) are brothers.
Brwoe TIL that the blue whale heart rate was measured for the first time last year! It gets as low as 2 beats per minute, raising up to 37 when it resurfaces (more oxygen access). It works at physiological extremes, and explains why the whale never evolved to be even bigger.