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TIL That a tree introduced by the British to combat soil erosion turned so invasive that local Indians punished people by asking criminals to remove it as a remedy to crimes.

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ePGn TIL in 2009 three police officers earned over $300,000 a year in Clarkstown NY, one of the safest towns in the country.
PYDwL TIL Germany lost more soldiers in the Battle of Stalingrad than Britain in the entire war.
KYOW6 TIL Led Zeppelin were considered one of the most dangerous bands to interview, and journalists were given rules to ensure all out brawls wouldn’t break out. Among those the most famous was to “never make eye contact with John Bonham. ”
loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.
xmyD TIL That the head of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy is called the First Sea Lord.