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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.

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4Y85 TIL the international data code for Switzerland is CH, which stands for Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name for the country. Switzerland chose this code to avoid favouring any of their four official languages.
7reNr TIL Geraldo Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army in Iraq as a war correspondent for Fox News and ended up drawing a map in the sand during a live broadcast pinpointing his exact location and revealing the time and details of an upcoming military operation
awYvZ TIL that the actor that plays Carl Winslow in the hit TV show “Family Matters”, Reginald VelJohnson, was only 31 years old when he began playing the role, even though he looked considerably older.
Y7vV7 TIL A 17 year old youth who killed a 15 year old girl was caught after a sting that included staging a video game competition then he was led to believe a very wealthy and powerful entertainment executive wanted to help him and make his problems go away, leading to his confession
dJJZ TIL that in 1856, an Indian mathematician was hired to calculate the height of Mount Everest and found it to be exactly 29,000 ft. Authorities released the height as 29,002 ft to avoid speculation that they had just given a rounded estimate as it would have been hard to believe the exact figure.