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TIL about Walter White- Civil Rights activist that posed as white to investigate US lynchings

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5vXr TIL that a village in Rajasthan, India plants 111 trees every time a girl is born, ensuring the trees survival over the years. The village has planted over 250,000 trees.
KY04a TIL that in 1973, the first mobile phone call was made by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper in New York City. Cooper made the call on a prototype mobile phone, nicknamed the "brick," to his rival at Bell Labs, announcing, "I'm ringing you just to see if my call sounds good at your end."
jXjQ TIL:of Pando a grove of 47,000 or so trees that is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system.
N79K8 TIL Prince William will be the first English king (>50% English ancestry) of the UK/England since 1066. Normandies to Plantagenets were French, Tudors were Welsh, Stuarts were Scots, Hanovers to Windsors were Germans, QE2 is half-Scottish, and Charles is half-Greek.
PZaO TIL that Joseph Smith was killed by an angry mob while incarcerated. Smith had tried to suppress a local that had exposed Smith’s practice of polygamy - implying that he used his religion as a pretext to seduce and marry unassuming women - including the wives of some of his closest associates