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TIL someone made 49 Twitter accounts with which he/she is reenacting the entirety of Back to the Future

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eRbg TIL that the last surviving veteran of the Crimean war(1853) died in only 2004, he was a tortoise called Timothy who served with the Royal Navy
M70PB TIL: In 2013 a group in California were genetically engineering plants to glow in the dark and hoping to replace streetlights
Oo8Yg TIL the actor Matthew Perry played the videogame Fallout 3 so often, he got carpal tunnel syndrome and had to see a doctor.
MeJEV TIL that some plants such as trees are able to communicate with each-other through fungi networks around their roots, and that certain plants can exhibit a form of memory. These, among other things, suggest that plants could have a form of intelligence.
d7pK TIL Ubisoft fixed their game by using a cracked executable made by the warez group Reloaded to pirate their game. The signature of the Reloaded group was still in the patch when it was cracked open.