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TIL that trees communicate with each other

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vPD8x TIL Coca-Cola's Chinese name means 'delicious enjoyable' (可口可乐; 可口可樂 or Kěkǒu Kělè). When transcribing into Chinese, loangraphs are often chosen deliberately as to create certain connotations.
OGMyR TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf observed sunspots through a telescope for 46 years from 1847 and managed to reconstruct historical records back to 1610. His sunspot number monitoring work continued at the Zürich Observatory until 1979
GYED4 TIL David Bowie founded the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair” when he was 17. The BBC interviewed him about it on which he stated “It's not nice when people call you darling and that"
AGGB TIL during World War II American factory workers produced more than twice their German counterparts and had four times the output of Japanese workers prompting industrialist Donald Douglas to observe, “Here’s proof that free men can out-produce slaves.”
woDWP TIL Human sexuality is influenced by genetics