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TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!

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6O08 TIL That there is a network of fungi (mycorrhizal fungi) that connects plants to each other at the roots. The fungi give the plants nutrients and the plants give the fungi sugar. The vast connection of plants and fungi is called the “Wood Wide Web”
wLr56 TIL that the last World Pandemic started in Yunnan China in 1855 and cost 15m lives eventually petering out in the 1950's.
aw1Ky TIL: Mexico would not extradite cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the US without assurances he would not be executed. "Drug kingpin activity", along with treason and espionage, is one of a few "crimes against the state" punishable by death under US federal law.
pvmb TIL On this day 80 years ago, Americans lined up outside of bars and waited for the clock to strike 12 for the sale of alcohol to be legal again. Hooray beer freedom!
wLZNJ TIL: Poisoned halloween candy is almost entirely a myth. Aside from a 1950s case of laxative laced candy, it's never actually happened.