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TIL: Melbourne, Australia gave some of its trees email addresses so residents could report problems. Instead, the trees received love letters.

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D1k5P TIL of Taylor Alexis Muhl, a human chimera. She is fraternal twin sisters in one body. She has birthmark in her chest as her left side is darker, the recessive twin body part. She also has two immune system causing her to be sickly in her teens. Now in her 30's she works as a model.
8eAdP TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.
nW6NY TIL 20 years ago, in India, hundreds of women lynched a man akku Yadav in a courtroom when he remorselessly taunted his victims and threatened "to teach them a lesson". He was stabbed at least 70 times with kitchen knives and his penis was cut off.
kOG4W TIL in the early 70s Chrysler would produce unordered cars and store them at the "sales bank". The company then coerced the dealers into buying these cars under threat of such actions as not processing warranty claims or misplacing custom orders.
XEkEE TIL that Terry Pratchett was a Skyrim and Oblivion modder