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TIL During the Great Depression, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 3 billion trees in the US in under ten years.

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rP4 TIL British bombers bombed wooden German decoy airplanes 1944. With wooden decoy bombs.
68vQ TIL: In the USA, credit card companies are shifting credit card fraud liability to merchants if they don’t switch to chip card POS terminals by October 2015.
kONem TIL that in 2007 a British author submitted the opening chapters of three classic Jane Austen novels to major publishers as a test. He used different titles but changed little besides names and locations. Most of the publishers rejected the manuscripts, and only one recognized them as Austen's.
MeoJK TIL that the Germans saw the signing of the treaty of Versailles as humiliating defeat. The treaty was signed in the Compiègne Wagon. When the French surrendered to the Germans in 1940, Hitler had the wagon taken out of a museum and placed in the same spot for signing the new armistice.
v1w08 TIL of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Heist, one of the largest burglaries in Britain... And it was carried out by pensioners