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TIL Trees talk with each other using electronical impulses

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8epNK TIL The first person clinically diagnosed with Autism is still alive. Donald Grey Triplett who is 89 years old.
gey7 TIL there is no “Nobel Prize” for Economics - it is a separate prize created 67 years later, which Alfred Nobel’s descendants have called “a PR coup by economists to enhance the prestige of free market ideology and establish it as a science.”
kJLrm TIL the second atomic bomb was intended for Kokura, but poor visibility from cloud cover and smoke forced the crew to circle the city three times. Low on fuel, they abandoned the mission and proceeded to Nagasaki, where the bomb was ultimately dropped.
oBAK8 TIL People who are liberals tend to have a more active conflict-related anterior cingulate activity response, which could suggest a better ability to change habitual behaviour.
BroXx TIL At one point in August 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional team to field nine players who were either black or Latino. Coincidentally, this was the same year they won the World Series.