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TIL That While Tesla was listening on the radio, Marconi was transmitting. Tesla believed he had heard Mars when in actuality he had only heard the only other radio on earth that was coincidentally broadcasting.

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4eBa TIL Nicotine is the tobacco plant’s evolutionary defence mechanism, which makes insects sick when they eat the plant, thus saving the plant from being eaten!
49pX TIL when “Star Wars: Holiday Special” writer Vilanch warned Lucas about building a story around characters who don’t speak, he was met with a “glacial” look. With Lucas’s attention elsewhere, the show became an abomination and he would later regret not exercising a tighter grip over the production.
5Yo6P TIL that Pitchfork readers voted Kanye West's Album "Yeezus" as both the "Most Overrated Album" and "Most Underrated Album" of 2013
g7yA TIL that Malcolm X and possible Martin Luther King Jr. were planning on bringing the US Government in front of the United Nations on charges of human rights violations against African Americans
xQJg TIL in 2013, Melbourne, Australia assigned it’s trees individual email address with the idea that if citizens had any concerns they could make reports. The plan backfired due to people sending love letters to their favorite trees.