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TIL the USSR planted trees on battlefields instead of recovering fallen soldiers

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LKGQ TIL of Robin Williams’ bond with Koko the gorilla. He made her smile for the first time in 6 months after her lifelong gorilla companion passed and she became visibly upset when she heard the news of Williams’ death
koPd TIL the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Program is known as CAN-FAP
R5gY6 TIL people with ALS or Lou Gehrig disease are disproportionately nice and pleasant, in addition to slowly losing all motor function, with makes doctors think it may also affect the frontal lobe.
16XdD TIL that the inventor of the toilet paper roll, Seth Wheeler, illustrated the patent with the roll in the “over” position, fueling the ongoing debate about the correct way to hang toilet paper.
GA4M4 TIL Anna Marie Jarvis who created "Mother's Day" then resented the commercialization of the holiday, picketed flower & card sales then tried to organize campaigns to abolish the holiday leaving her penniless and was committed to an insane asylum partly paid by flower & card companies to keep her.