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TIL that poor people are more generous than the wealthy

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1a6RX TIL in 1946, the British government attempted to plant 150,000 acres of peanuts in an African colony. After 5 years and nearly £50 million, not only had the project failed, but the land was ruined in the process, leaving it an unusable dust bowl.
6O08 TIL That there is a network of fungi (mycorrhizal fungi) that connects plants to each other at the roots. The fungi give the plants nutrients and the plants give the fungi sugar. The vast connection of plants and fungi is called the “Wood Wide Web”
oBjRr TIL researchers found that when blind echolocators were listening to their echolocation clicks and echoes, the part of the brain normally used to see lights up.
QJaNE TIL the Prince of Egypt titular music "Let my People Go" was composed by Hans Zimmer(Transformers, the Rock, Inception, Nolan's Batman trilogy, Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2, etc.)
epVwE TIL Credit cards were never popular in China. The country skipped over a generation of finance and went straight to smartphone-based digital payments