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TIL some bacteria might generate, and communicate with radio waves.

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4k4kw TIL - During the gold rush these items would cost (in todays equivalent) you: eggs - $90, butter slice of bread $56, a pick axe $1500. Inflation during the Tech Boom was nothing compared to the Gold Rush - article from 2015.
Me0k7 TIL of the greenheart tree, whose wood is so strong it cannot be worked on with regular tools
J1g4V TIL In Breton it was said that the last person to die in the village before midnight of the New Year would be the guardian of the graveyard and Grim Reaper Ankou for the next year
pD1p TIL in 1982 the University of Pittsburgh rugby team was caught using human heads stolen from the schools anatomy lab to warm up before a game.
A5Rl TIL the Duke of Montague bet that he could fill a theatre by promising the public the impossible. A newspaper advertised a magician who could turn into any person, dead or alive. The theatre was full and the audience then informed that the magician couldn’t come.