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TIL that Turkey is planting 11 million trees on Nov. 11 across the country, setting a new Guinness World Record.

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J7YV TIL: During WWII, the US Navy had two freshwater aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes to train its pilots
nQ8Y TIL Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin were friends. On one occasion, Churchill taught Chaplin how to do brick laying, which was one of Winston’s favourite hobbies.
1alQr TIL that mammoths were originally thought to burrow like moles, since their remains were always found underground
kJAbB TIL Gunkanjima is an abandoned island near Nagasaki. Once densely populated with 5,000 residents on 0.072 km2, the island town was mainly a coal mine operation until 1974 when operations ceased. Typhoons have caused structures to slowly deteriorate, further emphasizing the atmosphere of abandonment
woXw1 TIL Sioux Lookout was once home to the second busiest airport in North America behind Chicago.