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TIL that plants 'listen' to find sources of water

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4kKNJ TIL when Amtrak launched its high-speed Acela line in 2000, only about 37 percent of people traveling between New York and Washington made the trip but it grew to 83 percent by 2021
QJPEE TIL in 2001, a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to save his nephew's severed arm, which was later successfully sewn back on in a hospital.
XGlr TIL that a Pew survey in 2010 found that Atheists/Agnostics are one of the highest scoring groups when it comes to general religious knowledge
jg0v TIL Genghis Khan once ordered his starving army to eat every tenth man.
n5kY TIL that it’s common to mention illnesses when offending someone in Dutch. Some translated examples include: “Get the cancer”, “Cancer mongoloid” and “Typhoid off”.