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TIL that many animals can communicate by vibrating the surface of earth, water or other substrates, a phenomenon known as seismic communication. Predators also use this ability to eavesdrop on their prey.

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p8MBG TIL that there is now unrefutable evidence that confirms the validity of the previously-labeled "absurd" theory that humans existed in the Americas before the end of the last ice age, further suggesting that a cataclysmic event could have wiped out a previously unknown civilization
eRpb TIL Teenager protested CIA drone strikes, killed by a drone four days later
jLxa TIL Scientists have actually succeeded in turning lead into gold, through Nuclear Transmutation.
d5wK TIL when a Pediatrician was involved in a fiery car wreck and was pinned in his burning car, among the fire rescue crew that arrived to save him was a man whose life the doctor had saved 30 years earlier as an infant.
8Gga TIL that in 1927 several million people in the United States sent over 100,000 petitions urging Congress to adopt the metric system.