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TIL there is a search engine that plants a tree everytime you use it.

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N40N TIL that one proposal to get rid of Castro was to spread rumours that he was the Antichrist, then fake the second coming; a US submarine would project an image of Jesus on some clouds near Havana while firing star-shells. A loudspeaker would be the voice of Jesus, urging them to renounce communism.
KdWJ TIL The Flaming Lips released a 24-hour-long song, sold on a hard drive encased in a real human skull for $5,000. They sold five of them.
16y1P TIL that SOS is a reverse acronym (a backronym). It is a distinctive and easy way to remember the morse code distress signal of three dots, three dashes, three dots. Only after its implementation did the mnemonic phrase such as "Save Our Souls come into use
rNYxe TIL the neighborhood of Rego Park, Queens (NYC) got its name from the Real Good Construction Company, which began residential development in the area in the 1920s, combining the first two letters of “Real” and “Good.”
nWD49 TIL During the American Revolutionary era tar and feathering was used as a form of vigilante justice to punish British Loyalist traitors