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TIL there’s evidence that trees communicate via a vast, underground network of fungal connections similar to a brain

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0wlZN TIL David Gilmour's 2016 performance at the Pompeii amphitheater was the first live performance with an audience since 79 A.D.
8aWV TIL A mathematician called Paul Erdős used amphetamines to improve his work. A friend bet him $500 he couldn’t quit the amphetamines he for a month. Erdős won and then promptly resumed taking them after complaining it had delayed his mathematics work by a month.
m1Vy TIL that a secret organisation founded by the NATO existed, which would stay behind and fight a guerillia war in the event of a soviet invasion and plotted terrorist attacks (Operation Gladio)
XkXj TIL that the last aurochs, the wild, giant, prehistoric ancestor of today’s cattle, was killed as recently as 1627 in Poland, two years after the founding of New York City.
AK9a TIL an Australian research institute ran a four-month study “to answer the age old question, ‘Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?’”. Results: 80% of the teaspoons in the study disappeared, with the half life of the teaspoons calculated at 81 days