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TIL There is an Indian village named "Piplantri" which celebrates the birth of every girl child by planting 111 trees

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VZM8 TIL Churchill’s ‘We will fight on the beaches’ speech was never recorded. The famous recording is him reciting it in his home 4 years after the war.
woEv1 TIL that between the death of James Garfield on September 19, 1881, and October 11, 1881, Chester A. Arthur served as Chairman of the New York Republican Party while simultaneously serving as the President of the United States.
E1MVV TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
ANa94 TIL The fold of skin forming an open pouch on the lower posterior part of the cat external ear is called Henry's pocket
d8gbZ TIL Iwao Takamoto, the Japanese-American animator and designer behind cartoons such as Scooby-Doo, Penelope Pitstop and several Disney characters, learned his skills as a teenage prisoner in the Manzanar internment camp, which held over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.