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TIL that Suzanne Simard tested a theory that trees could communicate with each other. She discovered that when a Douglas Fir tree was in the shade, a Birch tree shared its carbon with the other tree.

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XEodP TIL in 2015, when Daniel Craig was asked that would he do another Bond film after Spectre, he said he would “rather break this glass and slash my wrists” and would only come back “for the money”. A year later he apologized and said “If I were to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly."
nBvW TIL that John Francis Peggotty was an armed dwarf bandit who roamed the South Australian Coorong region riding an ostrich, armed with two ornamental pistols and wearing stolen jewellery draped around his neck.
W7Zb9 TIL medieval England began adopting the A.D. system in the 8th century, influenced by Saint Bede's work on the dating of Easter and his Ecclesiastical History, with wider adoption across Europe after Charlemagne's 9th-century coronation.
PBVE TIL Early movie theaters in Japan hired benshi, storytellers who sat next to the screen and narrated silent movies. They were descendants of kabuki jōruri, kōdan storytellers, and other forms of oral storytelling. With the advent of sound in the early 1930s, the benshi gradually disappeared.
ne9KY TIL the Japanese work philosophy of “kaizen”, where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way