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TIL Bhutan celebrated the birth of their Prince by planting over 108,000 trees in districts throughout the country.

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dLyE TIL When the Beatles broke up in 1970, none of them had yet turned 30 years old.
lANV TIL of Hugh O'Flaherty, a priest who saved the lives of 6500 Allied soldiers and Jews during WWII by hiding them in farms, homes and convents. He was a master at disguises and evaded capture by the Gestapo many times earning him the nickname “Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican”.
YYlr TIL that submarines were originally detected by sensing the way they distort the Earth’s magnetic field. Now submarines have copper wires (with 4,000 amps running through them) wrapping the hull to demagnetize the ship to avoid detection.
Z8gGR TIL Emily Blunt was offered the MCU role of Black Widow, but she declined it
GYEm5 TIL That this day 125 years ago physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields most of all medicine by making the invisible visible.