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TIL of the "Wood Wide Web", an underground network of fungal threads and other microbes that allows sharing of nutrients between different plant species.

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VNLm TIL that an archaeologist and biblical scholar suggested that Jesus is a mushroom. “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient ‘sex-and-mushroom’ cult.”
oRmZL TIL that days are lengthening by 1.8 milliseconds a century, because the moon is moving away from earth at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters (1.1 inch) a year. This caused also that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on our planet lasted only about 18 hours
nW61b TIL that photosynthetic archaea(single-celled organisms similar in some ways to bacteria) absorb light using rhodopsin instead of chlorophyll, which is the same protein that our eyes use to see. The way they consume their food is the same way we see the world.
loX81 TIL If Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock.
4Xwy5 TIL A condition among waterfowl called angel wing can be caused by eating bread. In ducks and geese with angel wing, their wings become deformed because the carpal joint grows incorrectly making them unable to migrate. instead of bread, feed corn and peas to ducks and geese.