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TIL That Crown shyness is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps

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b6mL7 TIL about Documentary film: Black Astronauts & NASSA (Since the ISS post was locked - also satire)
x59g TIL that the man with the deepest voice can hum 8 octaves below the lowest G on the piano; so low that humans can’t hear it.
magE TIL The current image of what everyone thinks Jesus looks like is actually 15th Century Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI commissioned Leonardo Di Vinci to recast Jesus in the image of his own beloved son Cesare Borgia.
neWlo TIL the game Resistance: Fall of Man faced controversy from the Church of England due to it featuring the Manchester Cathedral as a battleground
Jv4V TIL of the Fermi paradox, a concept that states that the apparent lack of life in the universe is proof that intelligent life always destroys itself before it can expand into space