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TIL: that trees communicate with each other through soil.

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gA94 TIL a German air traffic controller was upset at a British pilot and asked him rudely if he had never been to Frankfurt before. The British pilot replied “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark…and I didn’t land.”
K4RG TIL that Army officer Hugh Thompson prevented the deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians including women and children, by a group of American soldiers. Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot, landed between the soldiers and the villagers and threatened to open fire if they continued their attacks
lGy5 TIL that “Gropecunt Lane”, was an official street name given to those streets in medieval England where prostitution took place, because it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street’s function or economic activity taking place within it.
n0yB TIL the Big Bang was initially rejected as a theory of the universe because of its “religious” implications and its origins; the originator of the theory was a Catholic priest.
mBEE TIL that in 1958, United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. It has never been recovered.