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TIL from 1933 to 1942 the Civilian Conservation Corps planted 3 BILLION trees.

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N76P6 TIL Bill Murray closed his deal on Meatballs the day before it started shooting and routinely ignored the script. His first day, he improvised his way through a scene where he’s introducing all the counselors-in-training – he showed up, read the pages and threw them away, saying, “I got this.”
Mennb TIL about 'The Lost Year.' On September 12, 1958 Gov. Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas high schools for a year rather than allowing desegregation to continue. Teachers and administrators were required to fulfill their contractual obligations and appear for work in empty schools.
9wJV6 TIL The native population of the entire continent of Europe is shrinking with no country having a fertility rate at replacement level (2.1 children per woman). France has the highest at 1.79 but all the other most populous Euro countries have rates of between 1.15 and 1.6.
PvaV TIL the famous opening phrase “It was a dark and stormy night;…” was first used in the 1830 novel Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
jO9M TIL at the 1956 Olympics, an Australian student successfully impersonated an Olympic torchbearer, handing the mayor of Sydney a painted chair leg topped with a pair of burning underwear in front of a crowd of thousands.