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TIL a Cadbury Flake will not melt

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4XxaN TIL David Bowie was a big SpongeBob SquarePants fan, and he even starred in one of the animated series' movies.
D1NKv TIL 'God Save The Queen' by The Sex Pistols was set to be Number 1 in the UK Top 40 chart on the weekend of The Queen's Jubilee in 1977. The BBC and UK Charts Company fixed the sales and banned the song so that Rod Stewart would be number 1, denying the Sex Pistols the top spot.
e0d0k TIL Trees communicate with each other mainly through the use of underground networks made of fungi that grow around their roots. These networks are called mycorrhizal networks. Mycorrhizal networks connect individual plants (like trees) together into a communication network via their roots.
b84Q TIL of Merlin a cat capable of purring 67.8 db(A) loud - about as loud as a vacuum cleaner
l9Y1 TIL when Darwin was studying a Madagascar orchid whose flower had a foot long nectar filled tube, he hypothesized it had an as yet unknown pollinating moth with a proboscis of the same length, a length unprecedented at the time. Not until 21 years after his death was the moth finally discovered.