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TIL The ancient Bowthorpe Oak, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, has a hollow trunk and a gigantic girth of about 44ft (13.4m).

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Jejm TIL: In 1924 the KKK planned to hold a major rally in South Bend to send a message to Notre Dame students. “Instead, the only message delivered that morning came from Notre Dame’s students, who pummeled the Klansmen as they disembarked from their train.”
a88k9 TIL I learned the saying, "Jalisco es México" (Jalisco is Mexico), the motto of the Meixcan state of Jalisco. This phrase references the fact that much of what foreigners associate with Mexico (e.g., mariachi, ranchera music, birria, tequila) originate from Jalisco specifically.
rQNx TIL that the famous flag over the Reichstag photo from WW2 had to be edited because one of the soldiers had a wristwatch on each arm, indicating he had been looting.
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OGZ9g TIL Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name, in English, in England. After publishing her first book anonymously, she published Prayers or Meditations under her own name in 1545, during her time as Queen consort.