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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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1agDd TIL after the first attempt to assassinate Franz Ferdinand failed due to a mistimed bomb, the assassin swallowed a cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka River to kill himself. The pill was expired and only induced vomiting and the Miljacka was only 13 cm deep due to the hot, dry summer.
ZBvB TIL Hans Asperger, who identified autism in 1944, once said, “It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential. The necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”.
0kKp TIL Lake Titicaca eventually drains into Lake Poopo
QnOe TIL science fiction writer Isaac Asimov died from complications of HIV due to a blood transfusion. For the next 10 years, the public wasn’t told he died of HIV.
QJLLp TIL The KGB Shipped a Sidewinder Missile by Mail to Moscow - It Cost $79.25