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jE4E TIL whales are descended from land mammals, and their closest living relative is the hippopotamus.
MeYV0 TIL many household appliances have a “Sabbath mode” that, when activated, allows the user to operate the appliance within the constraints of Jewish religious holidays by disabling certain functions of the appliance.
P1J8Z TIL the world record for the longest time without blinking is 1 hour and 31 minutes, which was set by Anand Haridas on July 12, 2021
GYAk7 TIL the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two others are entombed under 75 feet of ice within the Ross Ice Shelf and will reach the ocean in 275 years, perhaps floating away in an iceberg.
Z8Z6R TIL that Suzanne Simard tested a theory that trees could communicate with each other. She discovered that when a Douglas Fir tree was in the shade, a Birch tree shared its carbon with the other tree.