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TIL There’s a kind of turtle with a green punk hairstyle

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d7NK TIL that you can undo sent emails on Gmail, meaning the other person never has to see them
J1jkm TIL India celebrates Children's Day on November 14, exactly nine months after Valentine's Day.
6E1m7 TIL that on 17th May 1972, 10,000 London school kids went on strike to march against caning, detention, uniforms and ‘headmaster dictatorships’. Abandoning lessons to march on County Hall, the government thought it so serious MI5 and the Special Branch were involved to spy on 'school activists.
d007 TIL Joan of Arc was granted a retrial by the church and declared innocent in 1456. Unfortunately, that was 25 years after she was burned at the stake.
rRmKo TIL that Gail Halvorsen, a US pilot, would drop candies for German children in late 1940s Berlin. To not injure them, he would fabricate parachutes out of handkerchiefs and tied them to the rations.