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TIL that the city of Toronto Canada is trying to save a 250 year old tree! That is older than Canada itself.

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BroKk TIL that Aryan and Swastika are very common boy and girl names in India.
D1app TIL that the filling between the wafers in Kit-Kats is made from other mashed up Kit-Kats that didn't get past the quality assurance due to minor imperfections
Wkv48 TIL that some dogs have period cramps
D10PJ TIL that Robert Liston amputated a patient's leg so fast that he cut off his assistant's fingers and slashed through a spectator's coat. His patient and assistant died due to infection, and the spectator died due to shock, making this medical operation the only known one with a 300% mortality rate.
VMKeD TIL that during WW1, a Canadian soldier brought his pet bear to Britain. He named the bear Winnie after his home town Winnipeg an later donated the bear to the London Zoo where a boy named Christopher Robin liked it so much it inspired his father to write about it, thus Winnie the Pooh.