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TIL: that trees communicate with each other through soil.

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dp9j TIL during the California Genocide, private militias were paid by the state and federal governments to slaughter indians, and allowed for the capture of their children as slaves, with eventual extermination noted as the goal by the governor.
OGGQR TIL grapes are toxic to cats and dogs.
5Yr1p TIL Marie and Pierre Curie won the Physics Nobel Prize in 1903. Marie Curie won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1911. Marie's daughter Irène and her husband won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1935. In total, 15 people in the family were prominent researchers in physics, chemistry, biology or medicine.
OGPle TIL Ted Koppel's German Jewish father was invited to England to help the war effort then imprisoned for being German
R947 TIL Disney’s Aladdin was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most controversial films, due to the original releases ‘Arabian Nights’ verse: “…Where they cut off your ear if they don’t like your face / It’s barbaric, but, hey, it’s home”. This lyric was changed in the 1993 video release.