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TIL that plants respond to stimuli as intelligent beings. When researchers played an audiotrack of caterpillars munching on leaves, plants secreted chemicals to make their own leaves more resistant. They can also sense gravity and the presence of water, and produce their own neurotransmitters.

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1aYJV TIL star of the silent screen, Lon Chaney, was born to deaf-mute parents. As a result, he became skilled in pantomime as a child, setting him on the path to his future acting career.
78RPp TIL of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates UFOs and unexplained phenomena in the air, sea, space, and on land. These are referred to as "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP), or "anomalies".
l7JXA TIL that more men than women are colorblind, not because knowing colors is considered a feminine trait, but because it is a sex-linked gene. Colorblindness is a recessive trait on the X chromosome, so men only need one bad X to be colorblind, whereas women need two.
KOMQw TIL roughly 20% of suspected pedophiles in the UK are female.
8eQ5Z TIL in 2017, MMA icon Matt Hughes was a hit by a train, putting him in a 19 day coma and leaving him with a significant TBI