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TIL New York City homeowners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free.

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v1rOj TIL Between 2011 and 2017 more people have died from taking selfies than in shark attacks worldwide.
0Qov TIL Schools in Japan don’t employ custodial staff, because they believe students should respect their learning environment and keep it clean themselves
W7NGL TIL the evolutionary leap from egg laying to placental birth may have been helped by DNA from an ancient retrovirus, which coded for a protein allowing cells around the placenta to fuse, blocking the exchange of maternal-fetal blood and preventing the mother’s immune system from harming the fetus.
ne8ld TIL that the Pomp and Circumstance march was named after a line in Shakespeare's Othello and was not originally intended as a graduation march.
rNX80 TIL that the Ohio River's volume is greater than the Mississippi's volume at their confluence; hydrologically, the resulting river is usually named for the higher-flow contributor.