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5YpMk TIL Mature Douglas Fir trees can send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi. Birches can loan carbon to fir trees in the summer, while firs pay it back in fall. Trees of different species can share nitrogen leached from salmon leftovers from a bear's lunch.
Gm81 TIL MythBusters confirmed the myth that a scuba diver can wear a tuxedo underneath his drysuit, go underwater, resurface, strip off his scuba gear, and be able to present the tuxedo at a yacht party in the harbour as in James Bond Goldfinger.
nWwlW TIL that AI systems have developed their own languages to communicate with each other, a phenomenon known as emergent language, which researchers are still striving to fully understand.
rNpZx TIL There’s a missing “Pope John XX” — because of confusion during the Middle Ages, the numbering skipped from John XIX directly to John XXI. There never was an official John XX!
rR5Jd TIL The common swift holds the record for the longest continuous flight time. A study of 19 swifts showed the birds stay in flight for 10 months out of the year. Three of the birds did not rest once, staying in flight for 300 days straight.