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TIL Some ants will make themselves explode as a last resort during a fight

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Z8Z6R 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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oB97 TIL that the reason why your singing sounds better in the shower is that the shape and material of your shower causes it to act like a low-tech sound mixer
NX5NM TIL that it's actually possible to communicate with plants
wLEpP TIL in the 1820s a Cherokee named Sequoyah, impressed by European written languages, invented a writing system with 85 characters that was considered superior to the English alphabet. The Cherokee syllabary could be learned in a few weeks and by 1825 the majority of Cherokees could read and write.