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TIL in 2007, the Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill declaring the watermelon as the official state vegetable.

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wG18 TIL that in 1971 a small group calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a FBI office in Philly, stole over 1000 documents, exposed the extreme surveillance program COINTELPRO, and then sent these documents to the press, leading to the FBI shutting it down.
wLwX7 TIL One in four cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies.
DQnaJ TIL that Krazy Kat, William Randolph Hearst's favorite kartoon kat, was gender fluid: sometimes male, sometimes female, but always in love with the (male) Ignatz Mouse.
0xgp TIL that Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) only spent a handful of months within in England and most likely didn’t even speak the English Language.
PYkyL Today I learned that there's a California University and an Indiana University, and both of them are located in Pennsylvania.