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

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M7Oem TIL the elderly couple seen hugging on the bed in Titanic (1997) while water floods their room were the owners of Macy's department store, Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus. Ida refused a seat on a lifeboat, stating "Where you go, I go" which inspired Rose's line in the film.
pYZxG TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, people could buy plastic screens to colorize their black & white TVs
Ypb6B TIL There is a theorem inspired by the division into slices of a pizza, presented in 1967 and still under study today.
9wPLG TIL that angry imported military camels roamed the Wild West
kOBj7 TIL that Harris Wittels was a writer for the Sarah Silverman show, Parks and Recreation, Eastbound and Down, and Masters of None. Amy Poehler called him the “funniest person [she] ever met”. Harris was also the drummer in the band Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die. Harris died of a heroin overdose in 2015.