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TIL Jessica Fletcher's sleuthing landed the fictional author a Guinness World Record title. She holds a Guinness World Record for being the most prolific amateur sleuth

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1dAd TIL: Cables at the bottom of the ocean Transmit 99% of the world’s data. Sharks have bitten these cables before, meaning that the internet has suffered from literal SHARK ATTACKS.
7rvyr Today I learned about the "Wood Wide Web", which is how trees not only "communicate" information to one another, but also share nutrients and they can even sabotage each other via this network of roots and fungi.
EgZo0 TIL that Frederick the Great had a special unit of super tall soldiers, and wished to breed them with tall women to create a giant army.
e7og TIL King David, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great are the four kings in a deck of cards.
x6LV7 TIL Sigmund Freud wrote a book where he claimed Moses actually worshipped an Egyptian sun deity.