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TIL that the Christmas tree that is annually set up in Trafalgar Square is donated by Norway as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War..

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yVKZp TIL By recording The French folksong "Au Clair de le Lune"(9th April 1860) Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was the first human ever to preserve his own voice and send it into the future on a phonautagram using a phonautograph.