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TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.

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OG84L TIL about the Climbing Perch, a crawling fish that is threatening mainland Australia. They can live out of water for up to six days and climb up trees as high as six feet.
PYmxw TIL Volcano Surfing or Volcano Boarding, is a sport performed on volcano slopes. Potential dangers include falling off and getting cut by the rough volcanic ash, breathing poisonous gasses, contracting histoplasmosis (otherwise known as 'caver's disease'), or being hit by flying molten lava
m1NDO TIL a door jamb is a part of a door, not when a bunch of people get stuck in a door way
p86RA In Delhi, air quality index (AQI) levels are usually a severe 200 on a good day (anything above 25 is deemed unsafe by World Health Organization). During peak pollution periods last year they soared well into a life-threatening 900 and sometimes off the measurable scale. But as Delhi’s 11m registered cars were taken off the roads and factories and construction were ground to a halt, AQI levels have regularly fallen below 20. The skies are suddenly a rare, piercing blue. Even the birdsong seems louder.
jYVE TIL Beetlejuice was only in 17.5 minutes of his own 1.5 hour movie.