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TIL Trees in forests have an underground communication and interaction system driven by fungal networks. “Mother trees” pass on information for best growth patterns and can divert nutrients to trees in need, and they are more likely to pass them on to trees of their own species.

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YpALG TIL Warren Buffett was rejected by Harvard because his interviewer determined his capabilities seemed inadequate, saying "Forget it. You’re not going to Harvard."
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Wka8A TIL During the Vietnam War, an Army aviator scored an air-to-air kill by shooting down a MiG from his fixed-wing Mohawk observer aircraft. The kill was kept secret since U.S. military doctrine stated that the Air Force has sole control of air superiority.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.