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TIL after Melbourne gave email addresses to trees so residents could report problems, they instead recieved love letters

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yQYka TIL that fishermen use kites and spiders' webs to catch needlefish (Solomon Islands)
L5KQ TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s original title for the South Park movie was “All Hell Breaks Loose,” but the MPAA denied it. They instead went with a circumcision joke.
8eMAa TIL the last surviving former slave in the US, Peter Mills died in 1972, aged 110 after being involved in a pedestrian accident
gK47 TIL that according to his brother, the last words of Vincent van Gogh were “The Sadness Will Last Forever” following his supposed suicide.
OoAr6 TIL the Swiss Army Knives are red so they can more easily be found when dropped in snow