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jNlEv TIL that there is an alive 'castrato'. Javier Medina was chemically castrated due to leukemia at the age of 8 years, later in life he began his musical formation in choirs becoming the first castrato the the world has heard in almost a century.
p8dQZ TIL The apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity is still alive and producing fruit.
9okM TIL that the tree Sir Isaac Newton observed in 1666 - from which the famous apple fell - is still alive today and producing apples