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TIL Plants Can Recognize and Communicate With Relatives to Work Together

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Bg0MK TIL the Nigerian government banned the Communist Party of Nigeria in 1966
dYGK TIL during the reign of the Khmer Rouge, there was a prison camp, named S-21, that had a death rate of 99.96%. S-21 was directed by a former math teacher who ordered “living autopsies,” had prisoners’ blood completely drained for use in hospitals, and used a “baby-smashing tree” to kill children.
Am87 TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation’s original uniforms were one-piece jumpsuits, designed one size too small to stretch and look smooth on camera. They were painful to wear, and after Picard’s chiropractor warned that actors risked permanent injury, the show gave them two-piece uniforms.
ayjZ TIL that the original version of the Aladdin story is explicitly set in China by its opening sentences, and Aladdin himself is Chinese
oBb7E TIL Muhammad Ali could punch at 4/100 of a second, which is basically how quick you blink