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TIL that Melbourne officials gave ID numbers to trees so the public could report damaged branches. People wrote love letters to the trees instead.

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NWGE TIL that when turkeys were reintroduced to New England, they chose to live in cities instead of the forests turkeys as living in tandem with humans dramatically improved their survival rate
9V77 TIL The “Soapmaker of Correggio” made soap out of her human victims by boiling them in caustic soda. 1938-41
XE16P TIL that the word "mortgage" literally means "death-pledge" in French
loMdG TIL that the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups, its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts.
Y5WP TIL Bruce Lee was a national dance champion, winning the 1958 Cha Cha Championship in Hong Kong