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TIL trees can communicate underground via a network of fungi called “Wood Wide Web” where they exchange information and nutrients.

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epxbb TIL that the time zone used on the International Space Station is Coordinated Universal Time, which is equivalent to GMT.
0wj8M TIL That silver miners in the 1800s would discard their old work jeans in the mines. These jeans now can be sold for prices over $30,000, Levis going for the most! Many people have started hobbies going into the silver mines in hopes of finding them.
b9MZN TIL about Susan Sweney; a British pro-Nazi broadcaster in WWII, born in India. She was a Fascist, rumored Lesbian, and severe alcoholic. She survived two shipwrecks during WWII and was imprisoned by both Germany and Britain. Years later, she worked on a farm, and a pet shop in England.
5YAwB TIL that Sucralose (Splenda) was discovered when a scientist at a British college misheard instructions about testing a substance. Instead, he tasted it, realizing that it was highly sweet.
R7QZ1 TIL in Croatia, Slovakia, Malta and Italy young people move out at around THIRTY, while in the USA people move out at around 19