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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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0ddOL TIL Roughly 2.5 billion people watched princess Diana’s funeral in 1997. At its height the queue to reach the book of condolences took 6.5 hours. The queen gave her first live broadcast in 50 years
vP4N8 TIL, in the year 2003, Maywood Chemical Works — now owned by Stepan Company — imported more than 385,000 pounds of coca leaf for Coca-Cola, enough to make $200 million of cocaine, all of which legally had to be destroyed, likely by incineration.
78wL TIL Moscow has more Billionaires than any other city in the world, beating out New York City and London
gEML TIL that when author George R. R. Martin was a kid, he wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles; the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in “sinister plots”.
rRy8y TIL 15% of the population of Hong Kong (500,000) died in an influenza pandemic in 1968