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TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!

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4XBeo TIL that Soviet music bootleggers in the 50s and 60s would take discarded X-Ray film from hospitals and re-purpose them into improvised phonograph records containing banned music. These recordings were called "Rib Music", "Jazz on Bones", or "Roentgenizdat"
5YbDn TIL that the Andromeda Galaxy is on its way to collide with the Milky Way Galaxy and is predicted to occur 4.5 billion years from now
RG1j TIL that while American white women got the vote in 1920, First Nations women didn’t get it until 1924, Asian American women didn’t get it ‘til 1952, and African America women not until 1964.
KayJ TIL Michael Jackson tried to hang out casually at a club and people watch but was surprised when he heard the DJ play remixes of his songs and said “Wow, I didn’t know that they still played my music” in 2008
nkRG TIL Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the first animated film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and remained the only animated film until 2010 when the field was widened to 10 nominations (Up was the 2nd).