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TIL In 1963, some 20% of Humlikon village (43 residents from a population 217) were killed in a single Swiss Air plane crash. That included the mayor, the entire town council, all of the school staff, the postmaster, and family.

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e0d0k TIL Trees communicate with each other mainly through the use of underground networks made of fungi that grow around their roots. These networks are called mycorrhizal networks. Mycorrhizal networks connect individual plants (like trees) together into a communication network via their roots.
JY6k TIL 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.
LagZ TIL in 2012, Greenpeace convinced the Zambian government that it was better to let people starve to death rather than distribute golden rice, during a famine. Thus causing greater use of pesticide and unnecessary deaths
x6rw TIL There is a seriall killer that killed 110-300+ young girls. He served 14 years in prison, and is a free man to this day.
Bevk TIL that if we had a spacecraft that could “simply” accelerate at a constant 1g (the acceleration rate of free-falling objects due to gravity), then the passengers would be able to travel through the entire KNOWN universe, not merely the observable universe, in just one lifetime.